XYZ
Model View Controller
Presentation Abstraction Control
etc ...
Frameworks and patterns are always helpful when you want to write a computer program. Maybe there should be a framework developed for artists -- not only an IDE like Processing that will ease access to complicated OpenGL stuff, but one that also honestly includes "ideas" and "proposals". If "code" is so hype, let's apply all the surrounding principles at everything, right?
For X i can suggest these all time classics:
RSS feeds, stock market quotes, Pseudo-Random-Number-Generator, output of some Google/Flickr API, Spam messages, user submitted files (UGC)
For Z i can suggest these all time classics:
Abstract 3D virtual environment, static picture or animation, musical score, random sounding noise collage
For Y i can suggest these all time classics:
... errr, whatever, probably Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Cold Fusion or something.
Most of these inputs and outputs look obvious of course. But if it is obvious and there is no good implementation of it that would "help somebody" as Tom suggests, it should by all means be made. Coz then maybe there is a small chance that this obvious betterment for the people will finally arrive.
This "Open Source morality" is indeed strange, and if Free Software or Free Data would really be an ultimate concern, skilled developers of Free Software should receive the funding instead ... The problem with free software ideals and art is that free software is very un-arty, most of the time even banal to the core, but its ideals are very inspiring. And Free Software is about to change quite some things. In conclusion, many people, rather bad at programming and from an artistic background, want to contribute to this ideal and the change. So sometimes it can become a bit embarrassing. The outcome may hardly come close to the inspiration level Free Software is radiating and will probably just not work as good as it should to make a change.
(All this concerning general "XYZ type" of projects as i understand it, not the rhizome list, through which i only skimmed.)
But practically i have nothing against all that and welcome these new possibilities that for example artists have. The more easy it is to make XYZ the more happy i am. Probably in five years, WXYZ will be as easy to do as XYZ is now. Not so much because of technological advancement but because the "intuitive" (crap word, but i don't know a better one in English) understanding of computers will have grown. At the moment it looks like many people understood that with a (networked) computer you can gather whatever (meaningful) data and transform it to whatever else (e.g. something meaningful). This transformation will not always be successful, but still -- imagine if really everybody on the street understood this principle. It would turn the world around.
Looking for inspiration, shallow transformation exercises are boring for myself. For people who have no or wrong ideas about the computer, a machine that runs our world, these XYZ might in the best case provide an insight. I would prefer if understanding of computers would have moved past this point already, but as it seems a lot of simple XYZ is still needed. So bring them on!
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Model View Controller
Presentation Abstraction Control
etc ...
Frameworks and patterns are always helpful when you want to write a computer program. Maybe there should be a framework developed for artists -- not only an IDE like Processing that will ease access to complicated OpenGL stuff, but one that also honestly includes "ideas" and "proposals". If "code" is so hype, let's apply all the surrounding principles at everything, right?
For X i can suggest these all time classics:
RSS feeds, stock market quotes, Pseudo-Random-Number-Generator, output of some Google/Flickr API, Spam messages, user submitted files (UGC)
For Z i can suggest these all time classics:
Abstract 3D virtual environment, static picture or animation, musical score, random sounding noise collage
For Y i can suggest these all time classics:
... errr, whatever, probably Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Cold Fusion or something.
Most of these inputs and outputs look obvious of course. But if it is obvious and there is no good implementation of it that would "help somebody" as Tom suggests, it should by all means be made. Coz then maybe there is a small chance that this obvious betterment for the people will finally arrive.
This "Open Source morality" is indeed strange, and if Free Software or Free Data would really be an ultimate concern, skilled developers of Free Software should receive the funding instead ... The problem with free software ideals and art is that free software is very un-arty, most of the time even banal to the core, but its ideals are very inspiring. And Free Software is about to change quite some things. In conclusion, many people, rather bad at programming and from an artistic background, want to contribute to this ideal and the change. So sometimes it can become a bit embarrassing. The outcome may hardly come close to the inspiration level Free Software is radiating and will probably just not work as good as it should to make a change.
(All this concerning general "XYZ type" of projects as i understand it, not the rhizome list, through which i only skimmed.)
But practically i have nothing against all that and welcome these new possibilities that for example artists have. The more easy it is to make XYZ the more happy i am. Probably in five years, WXYZ will be as easy to do as XYZ is now. Not so much because of technological advancement but because the "intuitive" (crap word, but i don't know a better one in English) understanding of computers will have grown. At the moment it looks like many people understood that with a (networked) computer you can gather whatever (meaningful) data and transform it to whatever else (e.g. something meaningful). This transformation will not always be successful, but still -- imagine if really everybody on the street understood this principle. It would turn the world around.
Looking for inspiration, shallow transformation exercises are boring for myself. For people who have no or wrong ideas about the computer, a machine that runs our world, these XYZ might in the best case provide an insight. I would prefer if understanding of computers would have moved past this point already, but as it seems a lot of simple XYZ is still needed. So bring them on!
- drx 6-26-2007 2:28 am