From: Christophe Mckeon Date: 2007-03-25T10:32:53+09:00 Subject: Re: New Version of DRP (Genetic Programming) > Do you have examples of Directed Programming in algorithmic composition? sorry but none that i am willing to share at this point, but i will try to include a sound synthesis example in the next release. probably using csound and maybe one also with ruby's midilib. the very first (unreleased) versions of drp were written in the supercollider sound synthesis language (which btw is ruby's closest living relative), so it is a major concern of mine, the other being visual art. the lib is designed for ease of use and flexibility. it lets you choose and evolve weights and maximum recursive depths for functions on an individual basis assuming that you will want to tweak the evolutionary process one way or the other and do so easily, i.e. it encourages cheating whereas other more engineering oriented libs generally frown upon or at the very least do not facilitate it. another thing that i wanted to be able to do is combine independently evolved components of a system, which you can do with drp since it makes no assumptions about how you want to structure your evolutionary process. it is really just a mapping layer from vectors of floats to programs. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.