Glossary

Host

A third-party creative-coding environment that hosts FluCoMa objects, such as Max, Pure Data or SuperCollider

Host wrapper

The outermost layer of the framework. Given a specification for an object in a client, the host wrapper translates this specification into a plugin for a given host

Client

A client represents an interface for a composition of algorithms. Unlike algorithms, clients need to expose certain functions to enable the framework to construct concrete objects for a given host

Algorithm

An algorithm is the innermost component of FluCoMa’s architecture, and simply denotes some class (or even function) that processes some data. There are very few restrictions on how an algorithm is represented, though there are some conventions.

CMake

A build system generator. CMake is its own little language for describing how to build a piece (or pieces) of software, that produces a build script in a choice of formats (e.g Makefile, ninja, XCode project, MSVC project)