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✨ pd — the Gem era begins ✨

okay bestie, so we're talking about the pd(1) man page from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally all about pd-gem. she's giving "Graphical Environment for Multimedia" meets "Pure Data external" and honestly? iconic. 🎀

🦋 NAME 🦋

pd-gem — Graphical Environment for Multimedia — Pure Data external

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: Gem (that's Graphics Environment for Multimedia, iykyk) is a library that teams up with Miller Puckette's Max-like realtime-computermusic-software "Pure Data" (aka Pd). and what it does?? it lets you draw and control openGL- and pixel-graphics (yes, like video 👀) in realtime, straight up from inside pd. no cap. 🔥

this little script right here? it starts Pd with Gem enabled. and all arguments you pass to it, it just forwards them to Pd, like the loyal bestie it is. 🫶

so if you wanna know the list of allowable arguments to Pd (via pd-gem), type:

pd-gem -help

and for more documentation, either start pd-gem and get help, or go consult:

http://gem.iem.at

(and yes, the URL is staying exactly like that, periodt.) 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

🎀 LICENSE 🎀

Gem is covered by the GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPL-2+). slay and legally free. ⭐

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

Gem homepage: http://gem.iem.at

👑 AUTHOR 👑

IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> et al. — the main character energy behind all this. 💜

The manpage was written by IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). so like, made for Debian but the doors are open for everyone. 🦋

lowkey a whole legend for writing the docs too. respect. 🙈

and that's the whole vibe, bestie. this page is brought to you by GNU, dated 1996 Mar 20, filed under pd(1) — go forth and render some graphics, mwah 💖✨

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