{"id":9167,"date":"2012-08-14T19:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2012-08-14T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:29:55","slug":"sharpening-the-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9167","title":{"rendered":"Sharpening the axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<i>\u201cGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.\u201d &#8212; Abraham Lincoln<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This summer I&#8217;ve been gradually pulling together various research software that I&#8217;ve built over the course of many years and many projects.  The general idea is to create a single environment that easily allows anything to be used together with anything else.<\/p>\n<p>So all of the procedural modeling and texturing tools, animation, A.I., user interface widgets, musical keyboard and midi access, exotic tracking devices, live coding editor, and so on, are gradually ending up in one place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to get it all working smoothly together before the semester starts, as a platform that students can use to develop their own cool stuff.  I&#8217;m sure the students will do a lot of cool things with it that I never would have thought of. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.\u201d &#8212; Abraham Lincoln This summer I&#8217;ve been gradually pulling together various research software that I&#8217;ve built over the course of many years and many projects. The general idea is to create a single environment that easily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sharpening the axe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}