>On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:17 +0100, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>> personally for me it is this: 1993 I met the mathematician Michael
>> Renton in Kharimabad, a small place in the mountains of Pakistan and
>> we quickly became good friends, because we couldn't solve some stupid
>> riddle involving coconuts, snails and monkeys. He made his phd some
>> years later in chaos theory and started working in biomathematics. A
>> couple of years ago he came to Hamburg and introduced us to L-Systems
>> they were (and still are) using to model tree growth. I have
>> implemented this in SC then, and a while ago improved and simplified
>> it so that now you can also use context-sensitive grammars. Also it
>> is a lazy system now so you can stream in data from one side and
>> filter it with the rules.
>
>Wow, I'm really glad to get this lovely story out of you although
>actually was trying (and failing) to refer to the stream model in
>supercollider and not your l-system stuff.
I almost thoght so, but I couldn't resist .. ähm.
The stream model in SC comes from HMSL, but of
course I don't have access to any such romantic
story in that case.
>
>This kind of story is really great to know though, I wonder if there is
>a similar story behind every programming library related to music. Does
>anyone else want to share the story behind the creation of their
>library/environment/software?
>
>As for re-write rules I think the next stage of my project will use
>them... Analysing livecoding of my simple grammar as re-write rules.
>Well I need to read more about this stuff but I reckon looking at your
>coconut, snail and monkey library will help.
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