The preferences for most things are active after you change them. the exception would be interface setup things like the evolution editor configuration.
Canvas Hot Keys – Generic
h – switches to hand positioning interaction, cursor movement scrolls the view
c – switches to color picker, current color is set to the canvas color at the cursor position
= or + – zoom view in
- – zoom view out
q – d…
also, keeping this idea distinct from the coding ideas below (or above), while as musician I think midi and osc would definitely be extremely cool, adding serial support would open everything up more directly to physical computing with microcontroll…
To expand on the Processing idea, and to just toss out ideas, what if you had something like the following:
void setup(){
patch myPatch = newPatch(34); // the patch data type maintains a list of all of the presets available as starting points, of w…
first time i saw colorado was on a greyhound bus from ny (where i grew up too) to san francisco with a one-way ticket and $300. i wanted to get off the bus.
to be that fearless again! please post the fractals article if you can.