[chuck-users] cast dur to time?

[Rich Caloggero]

OK, I'm not a math wiz or even a audio/dsp wiz, and certainly not a ChucK wiz. What exactly does this mean:
now - (now % T) => now;

I've seen it before and am guessing it has something to do with periodicity, but not really sure how this statement works. 

-- Rich

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kassen 
  To: ChucK Users Mailing List 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [chuck-users] cast dur to time?


  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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