Fnk is an academic project. As such, there is a certain schedule and some tasks I have to conform to, and this includes writing a proposal paper where I outline what I want to do with Fnk, and how.
Adobe has just started the public beta release of Flash Player 10. This new version will be groundbreaking in a number of different ways.
As expressed by Mario Klingemann (who was also linked here a couple of months ago): this is the year of the node for Flash, and a new node-based environment for Flash, called Source Binder, is the one who helped the threshold be crossed.
Amazing: Processing, but running in JavaScript. John Resig has built a parser that works just like Processing, but instead of creating and compiling Java code, it creates JavaScript code that uses the Canvas feature of modern browsers to render the graphics.
Adobe has shown a few more Flash Player 10 features at FITC Toronto yesterday.
André Michelle, Joa Ebert and Kai-Philipp Schöllmann, interested in better sound control inside the Flash platform, created a website entitled Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE, a campaign that aims to address “the lack of dynamic sound manipulation in Flash.”
In the past few days at college I’ve been designing the way patches would look inside the editor – doing this inside Photoshop rather than any programming environment.
There are several different parts of the whole Fnk project I’ve been working over the past few weeks. The primary part I’m working on, as required by the college course itself, is its research paper, where I list some of the goals of the project and what kind of solutions I’m looking into.
Fnk by most means will be an environment for dataflow programming. This means the “execution” of Fnk patches will be done by modules; these modules process certain input parameters to create a new output that is then handled to another module.
I’ve spent the past few days investigating audio synthesis to decide what to tackle on with Fnk. It’s not my intention to create a full-fledged, high-fidelity audio synthesizer – there are already many platforms available for that, all of them created by people who know a lot more about sound than me – but I […]