Hi Amy,
I was going to ask about the Thingee dance mat actually, I assume it has
a similar function? Dancing code has to be a holy grail of performance
programming :)
I'm hoping to have a similar code pasting function in this virtual
machine idea - so you can save bits of memory (data=code) and paste them
back in.
As for decoupling the typing interface, a game pad with analogue sticks
allows you to use a circle menu for selecting individual instructions -
which may be lot easier - memorising directions rather than key
combinations.
Not sure how easy any of it is going to be yet though, had the whole
virtual machine and interface written in scheme running in fluxus, but
the timing is too shoddy for the audio so I'm having to rewrite the vm
in C++ now.
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 20:03 -0700, Amy Alexander wrote:
> groovy! actually Thingee also offers a gamepad interface to livecoding....
> but not the same kind... the
> idea being that when you livecode a snippet of code that you like, and you
> want to be able to reuse that snippet of code later in the performance
> without remembering/retyping it, you can hit a key on the keyboard that
> will assign it to a button on the gamepad. then any time you hit that
> button, it pastes in the code (in Thingee's case, into the visuals...)
> then when you are ready to execute it, you add the semi-colon (which
> always is the cue for Thingee to execute something.)
>
> might seem trivial, but the idea is to decouple livecoding from the
> necessity of typing, thus helping with problems of lack of gesture, typing
> virtuosity, or even mechanics of coding virtuosity...
>
> http://deprogramming.us/perfs/
>
> btw, i recently added some modificiations to Thingee including a
> "blackout" command for better group performance... must remember to upload
> it; the old version is still online, oof...
>
> -_at_
>
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>
> DG> is the plan:
> DG> http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=ClickCode
> DG>
> DG> Very work in progress, but I'd like to make something that is easy to
> DG> write self modifying code live. the screenshot is the contents of memory
> DG> after a process has copied itself a few times, and wrapped around the 256
> DG> bytes of memory. It makes a lot more sense to see it in action, rather
> DG> than a snapshot.
> DG>
> DG> orange = byte interpreted as an opcode
> DG> blue = byte used as data
> DG> red = byte being read from
> DG> yellow = byte being written to
> DG>
> DG> It's sort of based on this: http://www.pawfal.org/Art/Quagmire/ but the
> DG> memory display will also be a simple IDE for the microcode, controllable
> DG> via ganepad/dance mat/joystick input :)
> DG>
> DG> cheers,
> DG>
> DG> dave
> DG>
Received on Mon Jun 05 2006 - 21:01:18 BST