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Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment
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for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major
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branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max
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(Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by
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Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written
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and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many
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developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.
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Pd was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max
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paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a
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more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of
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audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video.
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It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes ("externals") or
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patches ("abstractions"). The work of many developers is already
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available as part of the standard Pd packages and the Pd developer
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community is growing rapidly. Recent developments include a system
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of abstractions for building performance environments; a library
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of objects for physical modeling; and a library of objects for
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generating and processing video in realtime.
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