If you can show the construction/manipulation of an algorithm its ok I
believe. For Max/MSP style use, there were some good demonstrations going
on in Belgium as short contests, so nothing to exclude visual programming
languages per se. Further, visual output is totally ok- look at fluxus or
The Thingee.
Problems start when all is hardcoded beforehand and unobservable, and you
only play with parameters via widgets. You might get away with it if your
performance itself followed and rewrote instructions (independent of the
software).
cheers
N
--On 9 August 2006 10:28:05 -0500 jonCates <joncates_at_criticalartware.net>
wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:45 AM, mcburton wrote:
>> > What does the toplap community think of visual coding vs textual
>> coding?
>
> i am also very interested in this question...
>
> when criticalartware participated in Read_me 2004 i had a chance to meet
> + talk w/sum of you who have founded Toplap + who are onList f2f. as i
> understand it, the Toplap position is clear on this issue. The act of
> writing code in whichever programming languages are used by the artist
> is to be the [visual/audio] experience of the work, correct? so while
> vvvv is an exciting project from other perspectives (+ i have been
> following it's development from those other perspectives) it wouldn't be
> compliant w/Toplap theorypractices specifically b/c of it's graphical
> interface + output, right?
>
> // jonCates
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