Unified media programming: an algebraic approach

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Spatio-Temporal Domains: An Overview

“…This suggests that semantic features can be distributed between typical operational features (time and space values) and denotational features (other data values). However, in many modern computerized systems such as, for instance, interactive music or animation systems [14,18,2,3], timing or spacing information plays a crucial rôle in the definition of system's inputs and outputs. There, many data values are implicitly parameterized by some space and/or time information: think of an augmented music system taking as input the melody played by a musician dancing on a stage.…”