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hello. all i want to do is to bang the message box using the data from kinect controller. I dont know why this patch doesnt work, am i mssing something? or it is a matter of data mapping, i.e., i need to tweet the data until it works?

I really appreciate any insights regarding to this problem.

            "box" :             {

                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                "text" : "r l_kneex",

                "patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 133.0, 63.0, 21.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                "id" : "obj-8",

                "fontname" : "Arial",

                "fontsize" : 13.0,

                "numinlets" : 0,

                "numoutlets" : 1

                "maxclass" : "message",

                "text" : "0.999",

                "patching_rect" : [ 168.0, 323.0, 43.0, 19.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-7",

                "numinlets" : 2,

                "maxclass" : "button",

                "patching_rect" : [ 206.0, 250.0, 20.0, 20.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "bang" ],

                "id" : "obj-5",

                "numinlets" : 1,

                "text" : "if $f1 >= 1 then bang",

                "patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 312.0, 130.0, 21.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-3",

                "text" : "scale 0.127 0.856 0. 1.",

                "patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 233.0, 142.0, 21.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-2",

                "numinlets" : 6,

                "text" : "speedlim 25",

                "patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 178.0, 81.0, 21.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-1",

            "patchline" :             {

                "source" : [ "obj-5", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-7", 0 ],

                "hidden" : 0,

                "midpoints" : [ 215.5, 268.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-8", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ ]

                "source" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-2", 0 ],

                "source" : [ "obj-2", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-3", 0 ],

                "source" : [ "obj-3", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-5", 0 ],

hello.  all i want to do is to bang the message box using the data from kinect controller.  I dont know why this patch  doesnt work, am i mssing something?  or it is a matter of data mapping, i.e., i need to tweet the data until it works?

{
	"boxes" : [ 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "r l_kneex",
				"patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 133.0, 63.0, 21.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"id" : "obj-8",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"fontsize" : 13.0,
				"numinlets" : 0,
				"numoutlets" : 1
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "message",
				"text" : "0.999",
				"patching_rect" : [ 168.0, 323.0, 43.0, 19.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"id" : "obj-7",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"fontsize" : 13.0,
				"numinlets" : 2,
				"numoutlets" : 1
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "button",
				"patching_rect" : [ 206.0, 250.0, 20.0, 20.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "bang" ],
				"id" : "obj-5",
				"numinlets" : 1,
				"numoutlets" : 1
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "if $f1 >= 1 then bang",
				"patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 312.0, 130.0, 21.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"id" : "obj-3",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"fontsize" : 13.0,
				"numinlets" : 1,
				"numoutlets" : 1
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "scale 0.127 0.856 0. 1.",
				"patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 233.0, 142.0, 21.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"id" : "obj-2",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"fontsize" : 13.0,
				"numinlets" : 6,
				"numoutlets" : 1
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "speedlim 25",
				"patching_rect" : [ 299.0, 178.0, 81.0, 21.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"id" : "obj-1",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"fontsize" : 13.0,
				"numinlets" : 2,
				"numoutlets" : 1
			}

		}
 ],
	"lines" : [ 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-5", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-7", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [ 215.5, 268.0 ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-8", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-2", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-2", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-3", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-3", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-5", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

data-mapping

>all i want to do is to bang the message box

well, provided you're getting the right data from the "r l_kneex", it *is* banging that message box you've set up.

The question is, is banging that box precisely what you're going for?

Please elaborate on what you want to happen here. The [scale] object makes it so that any value above 0.856 sends the bang, triggering that number, "0.999", so you'll get a loooot of those, if your values from the kinect are 0-127!

>all i want to do is to bang the message box 

The question is, is banging that box precisely what you're going for? 

Please elaborate on what you want to happen here. The [scale] object makes it so that any value above 0.856 sends the bang, triggering that number, "0.999", so you'll get a loooot of those, if your values from the kinect are 0-127!


if your l_kneex is giving you values from 0 - 127 you will never get a bang...

if you get a 0 the scaled value is 0.856, if you get 127 you get 0. then you say: if I get anything bigger or equal to 1 give me a bang... unless your incoming values are negative, you will never get to 1 or higher in your scaling!!

what is it you are trying to do? there might be a better way!!

EDIT: ignore most of what I said!! I missed the exponential argument in the scale object...

0-127 is scaled to 0.856 - 0;
if you get a 0 the scaled value is 0.856, if you get 127 you get 0. then you say: if I get anything bigger or equal to 1 give me a bang... unless your incoming values are negative, you will never get to 1 or higher in your scaling!!

EDIT: ignore most of what I said!! I missed the exponential argument in the scale object...


I use osceleton to read my body movements and use tohm judson's patch to obtain and send data to jitter patch. the data send from TJ's patch are floating points, basically bw 0. and 1. or a little above 1.0

the bang is to trigger an action, in this case "0.999" is the degree of dampness.

but you r right, either it keeps banging or not bang at all.

I am having hard time getting the min and max numbers reading (from TJ's patch) of both l_kneex and l_kneey for the scaling. This makes me wonder if my patch may not be the right one to do the banging?

the bang is to trigger an action, in this case "0.999" is the degree of dampness.  

but you r right, either it keeps banging or not bang at all.  

I am having hard time getting the min and max numbers reading (from TJ's patch) of both l_kneex and l_kneey for the scaling.  This makes me wonder if my patch may not be the right one to do the banging?  

i mean maybe the if statement should be replaced by something else?

data mapping?