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Multimedia Programming with Pure Data

By : Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG
Book Image

Multimedia Programming with Pure Data

By: Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG

Overview of this book

Preparing interactive displays, creating computer games, and conducting audio-visual performance are now achievable without typing lines of code. With Pure Data, a graphical programming environment, creating interactive multimedia applications is just visually connecting graphical icons together. It is straightforward, intuitive, and effective. "Multimedia Programming with Pure Data" will show you how to create interactive multimedia applications. You will learn how to author various digital media, such as images, animations, audio, and videos together to form a coherent title. From simple to sophisticated interaction techniques, you will learn to apply these techniques in your practical multimedia projects. You start from making 2D and 3D computer graphics and proceed to animation, multimedia presentation, interface design, and more sophisticated computer vision applications with interactivity. With Pure Data and GEM, you will learn to produce animations with 2D digital imagery, 3D modelling, and particle systems. You can also design graphical interfaces, and use live video for motion tracking applications. Furthermore, you will learn Audio signal processing, which forms the key aspect to multimedia content creation. Last but not least, Network programming using Pure Data extension libraries explores applications to other portable devices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Multimedia Programming with Pure Data
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pure Data events


The International Pure Data Convention (Pd-con) has been around for a few years. The first one was in 2004. Besides the presentation of academic papers, there were performances, demonstrations, and exhibitions in the convention. The Pure Data website maintains the documentation for each of the conventions.

The Austrian association Pd~graz ,http://pd-graz.mur.at, organized the First International Pure Data Convention in 2004. Documentation of the convention can be accessed at http://puredata.info/community/conventions/convention04.

In 2007, the 2nd International Pure Data Convention was held in Montreal, Canada. The information is available at http://pure-data.artengine.ca/en/.

In 2009, the 3rd International Pure Data Convention was in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the Pure Data website, http://puredata.info/community/conventions/convention09/, you can find the complete documentation.

In 2011, the 4th International Pure Data Convention took place in Weimar, Germany. The documentation is now available at the website http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/PDCON:Start.