thesis/thesis.tex: Elaborating on message levels. Adding GUI acronym. Clarifying subsection titles for free and open-source spatial audio renderers.

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/thesis/thesis.tex b/thesis/thesis.tex
index 9cb0d3e..463091f 100644
--- a/thesis/thesis.tex
+++ b/thesis/thesis.tex
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@
 \newacronym{asdf}{ASDF}{Audio Scene Description Format}
 \newacronym{bs}{BS}{Binaural Synthesis}
 \newacronym{brs}{BRS}{Binaural Room Synthesis}
+\newacronym{cc}{CC}{Creative Commons}
 \newacronym{cicm}{CICM}{Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale}
 \newacronym{cnmat}{CNMAT}{Center for New Music and Audio Technologies}
-\newacronym{cc}{CC}{Creative Commons}
+\newacronym{cpu}{CPU}{Central Processing Unit}
 \newacronym{fdl}{FDL}{GNU Free Documentation License}
 \newacronym{gpl}{GPL}{GNU General Public License}
 \newacronym{gui}{GUI}{Graphical user interface}
@@ -218,10 +219,10 @@
       has a complex setup chain and many bugs, that are not likely to get fixed
       any time soon.
 
-    \subsection{HoaLibrary for PureData}
-      \label{subsec:hoalibraryforpd}
+    \subsection{HoaLibrary (PureData extension)}
+      \label{subsec:hoalibrary_puredata_extension}
     \subsection{3Dj (SuperCollider Quark)}
-      \label{subsec:3djsupercolliderquark}
+      \label{subsec:3dj_supercollider_quark}
 
     \subsection{WFSCollider}
       \label{subsec:wfscollider}
@@ -554,7 +555,7 @@
         the C++ side of the library, is responsible for assigning a network
         port to listen to for incoming messages, listening for messages,
         executing code on their arrival (callback handling) and sending
-        messages to clients. As most applications, that use liblo, use
+        messages to clients. As most applications, facilitating liblo, use
         \gls{osc} only as a messaging system, it usually means, that the
         application itself is not single-purpose and is busy computing
         something else most of the time. Therefore it makes sense to run a
@@ -727,6 +728,30 @@
   \cleardoublepage
       \subsubsection{Message levels}
         \label{subsubsec:message_levels}
+        The \gls{osc} interface conceived in the course of this work implements
+        several message levels to be able to distinguish between types of
+        clients and servers.\\
+        The \textit{enumeration class} MessageLevel in
+        \textit{src/ssr\_global.h} defines the four types \textit{SERVER},
+        \textit{THIN\_CLIENT}, \textit{CLIENT}, \textit{GUI\_CLIENT}.\\
+        Client \gls{ssr} instances subscribe to (\gls{ssr}) server instances
+        with the \textit{MessageLevel} \textit{CLIENT} by default.\\
+        Several updating messages, such as information on \gls{cpu} load or master
+        signal level are not of interest to a rendering client and should
+        therefore not be sent to them, which is why they are only sent to
+        clients with a \textit{MessageLevel} of \textit{GUI\_CLIENT} connected
+        to a \gls{ssr} instance.\\
+        Lightweight \gls{osc} capable applications used to control a \gls{ssr}
+        server instance or mimicing the behavior of a server instance to
+        control a set of clients also don't need all the processing and
+        transport related information of clients sent to them, which is why
+        they ought to subscribe to them with the \textit{MessageLevel}
+        \textit{THIN\_CLIENT}.\\
+        Server instances subscribed to, get the \textit{MessageLevel}
+        \textit{SERVER} assigned to by each client by default. To change the
+        type of \gls{osc} messages sent to them, the server's
+        \textit{MessageLevel} can be set to a higher value (i.e.
+        \textit{THIN\_CLIENT}).
 
       \subsubsection{Message interface}
         \label{subsubsec:message_interface}
@@ -963,7 +988,7 @@
           \begin{tabular}{ p{6.5cm} | p{0.9cm} | p{4.3cm} }
             \textbf{Path} & \textbf{Types} & \textbf{Description} \\
             \hline
-            \texttt{/update/cpu\_load} & f & CPU load changes.\\
+            \texttt{/update/cpu\_load} & f & \gls{cpu} load changes.\\
             \noalign{\smallskip}
             \texttt{/update/processing/state} & T & Processing state is set.\\
             \noalign{\smallskip}
@@ -1057,7 +1082,7 @@
             \texttt{/update/transport/state} & T & \gls{jack} transport was
             started.\\
           \end{tabular}
-          \caption{\gls{osc} messages for updating information on cpu load,
+          \caption{\gls{osc} messages for updating information on \gls{cpu} load,
             processing, reference, scene, source, and transport of clients on a
             server.\\
             Understood by server.\\