updated: Wed Jan 11 12:30:23 CET 2006
3DP is on hold for a while.

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some quick notes about 3dp


threads

no multithreading. basta. i am completely sick and tired
of trying to get it to work. if you need audio/video independence,
use 2 pd instances. i'm planning to add shared memory support
to libpf so at least 2 pds can sniff each other's packets.


serial

3dp is serial. it is represented by a tree. the tree is rooted
at the window context, and traversal of the tree is done in standard
pd way: rightmost outlets first. it is much simpler than it used
to be: all 3dp operations expect a '3dp' message on the left inlet
as a synchronization means. the drawing happens to the current
context.


accumulation

because of the explicit serial nature (incremental drawing) the
order of operations is important. 3dp behaves different as pf:
if you connect 2 obects to one outlet, the order of the operations
is unspecified.