On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:18 pm, Avi Bryant wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Dan Ingalls wrote:
> > Another take on this that might interest you is my intention to
> > revive a Fabrik-like system in Squeak (see
> > http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/Fabrik/Fabrik.html). 
> > This is another thing that did not work out while we were at
> > Disney.  The idea is just to make it really simple to do little
> > "computational sketches" in Squeak, whether with wires or with
> > little
> > spreadsheet-like tables, and with probably some overlap with
> > Morphic Wrappers.  My metaphor for this is to turn any pen
> > computer into the proverbial "back of an envelope" for simple
> > calculations.  It could then be married to some of the very cool
> > parts of eToys, or possibly into a cool web scripting system. 
> > For the latter I have in mind a different marriage to, eg,
> > screen-scraping and Flash components, but this would require help
> > from others.
>
> Very cool.  Dan, this interests me in a couple of ways: the first
> is that I've been playing recently with using Squeak for
> controlling theatrical sound and lighting.  One thing I'd like to
> be able to do is let sound and lighting designers "wire up" a
> custom console of sliders, VU meters, go-buttons, etc for a
> particular show.  The Max/MSP product does this fairly successfully
> for realtime audio processing, but I think something much cooler
> could be built in Squeak+Fabrik.

Probably could. I'd like to see a Fabrik done with my Connectors.

Have you see VNOS? This already has a presence in the market you're 
referring to, and might be the easiest way to just get something 
going.

Of course, it's not as cool as a Squeak-based project <g>.

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