[Jsynthlib-devel] Re: [PD] colored/swooping cables

[federico <xa...@in...>]

rob...@be... wrote:

>I was looking around online and saw this website:
>http://lab.andre-michelle.com/
>if you scroll down to the "velocity" category, and click on cables, it bring up a very interesting idea. Is there an extern that makes one of the following:
>1. colored cables (in the main window, not some gui thing. but in the place where most patches are normally made).
>OR
>2. Swooping cables (i think this would be rather bothersome though, having cables swoop all over the place, etc.)
>thanks,
>Robert
>  
>
i would prefer "intelligent cables".

this is a feature that PCB software has (tools for designing circuits).
given a netlist (here, a collection of inlets) with nodes that should be 
connected together, the program find the best path for each connection, 
i.e. by following a grid. (there are well known algorithms about this)

this "best" path should be a segmented (or bezier, or exp, or ...) line 
that try to not accross wires nor objects, to make reading (and MAKING) 
a patch easier, especially in the cases of many->one inlet or vice-versa 
(or other situations i don't remember ;)).

what do you think about it?

-- 
Federico