Bad Ideas for ChucK Development

Inventor

Since I added a bunch to this, I felt inclined to share it here as well.

Bad Ideas

* make ChucK more like COBOL

* port Chuck to ENIAC

* implement a hardware version of ChucK using CMOS logic

* sign an endorsement contract for ChucK with ChucK-E-Cheese

* MucK: okay, this is going further into la-la land. MATLAB / ChucK extension.
Diemo Schwarz and I had once envisioned this renegade concept of doing analysis in MATLAB and (somehow) using ChucK from within MATLAB to quickly (and concurrently) playback/synthesize/audisize on-the-spot. I wonder if anyone still wishes for this.

* MUSHCK: Multi-User Shared Hallucination ChucK. Multiple users can log in to the VM process, chat with each other and interact with ChucK remotely, while ChucK sends audio streams back to them. ( Hey this is a ctually quiet good! We can already do this, except the audio streams. Decentralised, p2p, VM would be awesome (as well as risky for both your ears and system)!)

* SucK: we need a really bad idea to go with this.

* BucK: the commercial version

* DucK: ChucK for migrating fowl

* HucK: ChucK for those lazy afternoons floating down the Mississippi River

* KucK: Realtime sauerkraut generator

* LucK: A ChucK program that works the first time

* Pluck: A ChucK program with strings attached.

* PucK: Live performance version of ChucK in which the program is controlled by hockey players.

* QucK: A ugen for DucK

* RucK: A ChucK concert given by an unemployed Wall Street television personality.

* StucK: A ChucK program that contains an infinite loop.

* TucK: Any ChucK program that generates lullabies.

* YucK: A ChucK program that executes correctly but which otherwise seems generally unpleasant.

* ChucKy: A ChucK program that gives you scary nightmares the next time you sleep.

* NunChucK: A ChucK program with Kung-Fu action.

* ClucK: A Kentucky fried ChucK program.

* ChucKlings: A group of little fuzzy yellow ChucK shreds that follow their parent shred around.

* ChecK: A ChucK program that automatically deposits into your checking account.

* CheeK: A ChucK program that turns red when it gets embarassed or in cold weather.

* ShreK: A lovable giant green ChucK program made for kids of all ages.

* WrecK: A ChucK program that collided with another ChucK program at CPU speed.

* SpecK: A very small Chuck program.

* ElecKt: A ChucK program that makes grand promises, but never keeps them.

* HecK: The place where evil ChucK programs end up.

* HucK: A ChucK program that travels down the Mississippi river and has many adventures.

* ClarK: A ChucK program from another planet that saves the world with it's mighty powers.

* ClerK: A ChucK program that makes tedious calculation in an office all day.

* ChicK: An attractive young female ChucK program.

* ShucK: A ChucK program that prepares corn for cooking on the cob.

* ShucKs: A ChucK program that is a little bit disappointed at how things turned out.

* TucKs: A medicated ChucK program for soothing relief of sore itching.

* TeaK: A ChucK program with a dark colored wood grain on it's user interface window.

* StacK: A group of ChucK programs that are arranged into a vertical pile on your desk.

* SticK: A long pointy wooden ChucK program.

* Drill ChucK: A ChucK program that strongly grips onto rotating metal cutting bits.

* PicK: A ChucK program used in the 1800's to dig for gold.

* GlocK: A ChucK program with seven bullets in a spring loaded linear array.

* SlicK: A ChucK program that is dangerous when wet by rain.

* RocK: 1. A ChucK program that grew out of Jazz and Blues to become a popular music style.

2. A ChucK program from Philadelphia that gets a shot at the world boxing title and wins.
3. A pet Chuck program that was wildly popular in the 80's but was really just a pebble.

* Sock: A ChucK program that you should never wear with flip-flops unless you're a grad student.

Frostburn · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

I think you missed the Shock Rock version of ChucK that has the letter F somewhere.

soundcyst · Joined: Feb 17, 2008 Posts: 17 Location: santa cruz, ca

Inventor · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject:

ChucK-Fu: Attainable only when grasshopper can snatch pebble from Master's hand.

ChucK-Fu-Yung: Favorite meal of ChucK-Fu master, egg patty with sauce.

ChucK-Fu Fighting: Famous song of ChucK-Fu master from the 1970's.

kijjaz · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:31 am Post subject:

ChucKiller: a chuck ported to an opensource operating system for controlling an individual nuclear warhead.
special feature: the nuclear warhead can produce interactive music and broadcast to internet while flying.

Frostburn · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:04 am Post subject:

ChuckZilla - A web browser that uses only sound to navigate the Internet. (until MAUI get's ported that is).

Kassen · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject:

ChunK; a unit of ChucK code (not a bad idea)

Kassen · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject:

SkinMechanix · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:42 am Post subject:

Chuck Norris...

It beats up your other software... Smile

kijjaz · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:06 am Post subject:

ChumechanicK: a programmable mechanical machine (no electricity) for modular music synthesis with human interface support
(no network features!)

Kassen · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject:

I think that once you start ChucKing mechanically, at least in a literal sense you don't need that much audio synthesis anymore.

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Probably a very bad idea indeed! :¬)

Inventor · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

Hey! That looks like my proposed guitar setup!