Want to run a project across multiple computers on a local network? Want to code on one computer and have it inserted into a running pipeline on another? Want to run pipelines across multiple local processes (VMs) for better performance? The latest alpha release of Praxis LIVE v2 finally makes distributed hubs a reality (an idea that’s been around since the architecture was originally designed).
Live coding Java (Processing) & GLSL code on one laptop while it runs on another.
No, not a post about my salacious exploits with a C-list Hollywood celebrity (that’s for a different blog 🙂 ), but a technical overview of a key aspect of the Praxis architecture. Absolutely essential to Praxis’ media neutral architecture, as well as the ability to edit everything live, is an asynchronous, shared-nothing, message-passing system. This is loosely inspired by the Actor Model and other solutions for concurrent / distributed programming (without following any particular concept to the letter). Continue reading
Praxis LIVE 