Lately, I’ve been working on some “classic” OpenGL programming within Jitter, and I’ve been using jit.gl.sketch to do that work; it is very close to the OpenGL syntax that you find in most books, and is fairly forgiving in terms of incoming data type. However, I got very tired of editing message boxes once the programs got a little bigger, but I wanted replaceable parameters like you get with a message box.
One of the best experiences of the last year was attending the Expo ’74 conference. As some have already stated, it was refreshing to be part of a gathering that didn’t require an explanation of what Max did, and I never felt like I needed to be ashamed about my excitement over a patching trick.Alex Stahl is a veteran collaborator and this has never been more evident than in his collaboration with Composer Paul Dresher for the opera Schick Machine. As Robert Henke pointed out in the recent Max/MSP/Jitter Conference, Expo ’74, many of us spend years working on the same Max patch. Alex Stahl has spent years developing the Max/MSP patches that are at the core of Schick Machine. Along the way he’s developed skills that landed him a fascinating job at Pixar Studios. Collaboration can be quite useful in this world.
Eowave has introduced another product in their line of sensor to MIDI interfaces called the Eobody2 HF, a wireless sensor to USB MIDI device. Building on the user-friendly and rock solid USB MIDI technology used in other recent Eobody boards, the HF allows you to place interactive sensor electronics on dancers, small objects, or anything else where cables would get in the way. Now that we have some of these in stock at the Cycling ’74 office, I sat down to give them a thorough run-through to see how it all works.
