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Hi,
PureData is a well known "visual programming language" for multimedia. It's natively able to process text message and communicates throw TCP/IP.

As Grasshopper for Rhino3D, PureData could be a procedural modeling processor for FreeCAD and an animation controller.

Here is a set of PureData "patches" and a FC macro as a first attempt to use one to control the other : https://github.com/FlachyJoe/FCPD
EDIT 11-03-21 :
FCPD is now a workbench and it no longer needs python skills to be used.

NB :

• fc_client is puredata-documented (right-click,help)
• I use Purr-data version of pure-data

Todo List :

• Writing a wiki
• Writing pd-embedded help patches *-help.pd
• Create more samples
• More stress-tests
• Add linkage to Sketcher workbench (Part and Draft are done)

EDIT 09-13-21 :
Install and first steps

EDIT 02-06-22 :
As it's a legitimate question, I'd like to explain my choice for Pure-Data.
I choose Pure-Data for it's community and experience (it's a 30 years old project). Available libraries are awesome with 2500+ abstarctions (= nodes). Even if computer music is its origin Arduino, µ-controllers, computer vision, etc… are covered topics.
If you find its GUI a little creepy be aware that some projects claim to improve it. See Purr-Data Spaghettis or PlugData for example.

Excellent. The GitHub read me is pretty sparse. Is there a way to record some screencasts showing some of these capabilities in realtime?

Hi,
I just push a big update, no record yet but the readme is better…

Very cool... but I was hoping to hear some sounds as well

cool!!

Kunda1 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:40 pm Very cool... but I was hoping to hear some sounds as well

Jee-Bee wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:24 pmcool!!

Thank you !

I'm now working on an animation recorder with keyframes and linear interpolation between them.
It's a little bit tricky to animate different objects in same time. It needs "dynamic patching" i.e. create and connect pd object in run time. I'll show you soon.

Kunda1 : give me a model of piano keyboard (single octave to start) with all keys named according to note and I'll try something...

flachyjoe wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:51 pm I'll show you soon.

Et voila ! https://github.com/FlachyJoe/fcpd-animator https://github.com/FlachyJoe/FCPDWorkbe ... n/animator It's quite simple to use… and certainly needs improvements

Dynamic patching occurs in multi-player.pd, play with it gently or you'll get a big knot Add/remove and even move boxes and you'll need to adjust the identifiers with DEBUG help.

Have fun !

Hi !
I'm proud to show you the
Ugly Vase Generator Get it at https://github.com/FlachyJoe/FCPD/tree/main/Sample https://github.com/FlachyJoe/FCPDWorkbe ... -generator

Hi,
Here is a workbench for more usability : https://github.com/FlachyJoe/FCPDWorkbench