Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: clockblocks
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: A python library for controlling the flow of musical time.
Home-page: https://github.com/MarcTheSpark/clockblocks
Author: Marc Evanstein
Author-email: marc@marcevanstein.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # clockblocks
        
        _clockblocks_ is a python library for controlling the flow of time, designed with musical applications in mind. In particular, it is a central component of [scamp](https://github.com/MarcTheSpark/scamp/), a Suite for Composing Algorithmic Music in Python.
        
        A `Clock` acts like thread, but with the advantage that when multiple clocks are coordinated under the same master clock they remain precisely coordinated and do not experience drift. Furthermore, processing time is taken into account when "wait" is called in a given Clock. For example, the following program:
        
        ```python
        import clockblocks
        import time
        import math
        
        clock = clockblocks.Clock()
        start = time.time()
        
        while True:
            print("Current time: {}".format(round(time.time() - start, 4)))
            # do some pointless and time-consuming calculations
            for i in range(1000000):
                math.log((i+1)**0.7)
            clock.wait(2)
        ```
         
        ... generates the output:
        
        ```console
        Current time: 0.0
        Current time: 2.0001
        Current time: 4.0001
        Current time: 6.0
        Current time: 8.0001
        Current time: 10.0
        ```
        
        Whereas a traditional thread:
        
        ```python
        import time
        import math
        
        start = time.time()
        
        while True:
            print("Current time: {}".format(round(time.time() - start, 4)))
            # do some pointless and time-consuming calculations
            for i in range(1000000):
                math.log((i+1)**0.7)
            time.sleep(2)
        ```
        
        
        ...will gradually drift because of the intensive calculations, outputting:
        
        ```console
        Current time: 0.0
        Current time: 2.3772
        Current time: 4.7623
        Current time: 7.1397
        Current time: 9.5151
        Current time: 11.893
        ```
        
        In addition, _clockblocks_ offers useful musical functionality, like sudden and gradual changes of tempo. Perhaps the most exciting feature of _clockblocks_ is that clocks moving at different tempos can be nested within each other. In this case, each clock distorts time for those underneath it: a clock whose tempo is oscillating between slow and fast, nested within a clock that is accelerating, will generate a time stream whose tempo oscillates faster and faster.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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