stringtapper

Here's a prototype I made for dividing a string into thirds. It will eventually end up inside a gen~ patch to control node placement on a waveguide string. The two sliders represent the nodes and the A, B, and C segments of the string are calculated from moving them. It seems to work fine but I thought for my own/everyone's amusement I'd see if any of the math/geometry geniuses could come up with a more elegant solution. What would really be interesting is an extensible solution that could be used for any amount of nodes. Not sure if that's even possible (not for me right now :-) )

PS - The overall string length is set at the constant 100 for ease of reading, but of course in the final patch I'll have a variable string length (in samples for the delay operators in gen~).

dividing-a-string-in-thirds

It can be expanded to as many nodes as you wish (I included 3 of them for demonstrating you the way to go). The only thing you have to change is the 

 at the beginning and the end, respectively. Don't forget that in the 

 at the top of the patcher you'll need to include the additional '1.' (as you can see in my patch, too) at the N+1th place (if you have N nodes) and you shouldn't connect anything to the rightmost inlet of that 

It can be expanded to as many nodes as you wish (I included 3 of them for demonstrating you the way to go). The only thing you have to change is the [pak] and the [unpack] at the beginning and the end, respectively. Don't forget that in the [pak] at the top of the patcher you'll need to include the additional '1.' (as you can see in my patch, too) at the N+1th place (if you have N nodes) and you shouldn't connect anything to the rightmost inlet of that [pak].

Fancy stuff there! Yes that does indeed help. A very elegant way to get multiple nodes. I'll look at using this solution when I work on strings with more than three waveguides, and when I do I'll post up an example of it in action. Thanks!

Dividing a String in Thirds