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.
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.
alex
Received on Mon Nov 27 2006 - 17:09:46 GMT