[chuck-users] cast dur to time?

[Kassen]

On 08/01/2008, mike clemow <gelfmuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay...  affine spaces.  I'm going to have to wikipedia that one, i'm
> afraid (high school math ain't doin' it for me here ;-)  I understand
> the analogy of vectors and point, though--I think that lends some
> credence to the idea that Chuck is already on the right path as far
> how the dur and time types work.


I see the analogy and I think it has a lot of merit.
I'm also, at the same time, sticking to my older point that ChucK is already
muddying the waters and is in fact getting quite a bit of use from that, for
example "now - (now % T) => now;", I find that line very beautiful,
extremely useful and in direct opposition to looking at time objects are
pure references to instances.


I still have a few questions.  The first is for Kassen:  Why do you
> want to know the VM start time?


To quote Nick Cave; "I can't see for the smoke so I poke around, I poke
around"(etc)

At some moment I just tried it as the units are the same, it didn't work so
I tried some more related stuff.

I want to learn so I'm asking questions. ChucK is a great tool to put some
bangin' beats on the proverbial floor and it's a nice experiment in syntax.
I like both aspects a lot. At the core of ChucK's syntax is time and timing
so any questions and -possible- incoherency's in working with those are
quite interesting.

I can find the birth of the VM and half a minuted after I found out how to I
shared this with the list so now we all can, but I think some questions
remain. I don't know about you but so far I have used "time" as a data type
only rarely and I didn't know that much about it, I think we all know a bit
more now. In a way there is a certain philosophical beauty to only being
able to define time in relation to the "now" but as this can lead to some
decidedly odd expressions I wonder if that's intentional and proper.

As for actual use, I could imagine that referring to absolute moments in
time could become useful when writing a score, especially with some sort of
sorting, Csound style. Maybe there are other better uses, maybe it's all
quite academic? I'm already enthusiastic there are people that have a
position on this too.



>
> I'm just thinking out loud...


So was and am I. It's the ultimate in open-source!
 "thinking out loud" strikes me as a excelent slogan for a musical
programing language.


Yours,
Kas.
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