Hi all, I need to find a way to develop the jit.conway object. I am trying to make it so that there are more states that the cellular automata can be said to be in. At the mo there is only alive or dead, 1 or 0, black square or white square. I deally I wouldl like to have a colour gradient such as 0%, 20%, 40%, 60% 80% and 100% of a colour (grayscale is fine).

I am assuming somehwere in the code there is an expression of something that says 'output = 1 or 0 for white or black square,

In the jit.conway ibject there is a subpatch called 'p celldraw' where it looks like the 'zl' 'route' and 'sel' objects state this, but how would I change this so that I could have more states?

The overeaching aim is to map the different states (colours) to a frequency specific to each (110hz, 220hz 440hz and so on) so I can generate harmonic audio from the data represented visually as the automata cells in the jit.pwindow (or another object if anyone can recommend one)

needless to say Im a little stuck so to summarise, if anyone can tell me how to:

A) make it so that there is a user defined number of states for the automata in the jit.conway object, and

B) map visual data into sound, specifically the moving image of the automata on screen (what object will translate a colour into a sound - genral I know but all help is greatly recieved

Hi all, I need to find a way to develop the jit.conway object.  I am trying to make it so that there are more states that the cellular automata can be said to be in.  At the mo there is only alive or dead, 1 or 0, black square or white square.  I deally I wouldl like to have a colour gradient such as 0%, 20%, 40%, 60% 80% and 100% of a colour (grayscale is fine).

I am assuming somehwere in the code there is an expression of something that says 'output = 1 or 0 for white or black square,  

needless to say Im a little stuck so to summarise, if anyone can tell me how to:
A) make it so that there is a user defined number of states for the automata in the jit.conway object, and
B) map visual data into sound, specifically the moving image of the automata on screen (what object will translate a colour into a sound - genral I know but all help is greatly recieved

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that will open hundreds of different methods how adjecting fields will influence each other, doesnt it?

quite possibly, Im at a stage of experimentation as my knowledge of max is pretty limited. I dont want to devestate the fundamental parts that the object needs to work properly, rather find a way to specify the state of the automata as being in one of more varieties thatn alive / dead.

an alernative method would be to take a value from the jit.pwindow (a mean for example) that would be an expression of density or space occupied by the CA but this will only give me a value such as an overall percentage of how much of the available space is being taken up by living automata cells

I have a good background in sound synthesis but trying to realise my ideas in max is somewaht harder seeing as I'm pretty new to programming

the basis for the idea came from Chaosynth

http://www.sonicspot.com/chaosynth/chaosynth.html

in this instrument the ca actually produce grains fo the synthesiser

that would be my ultimate aim - to emulate this instrument in max but getting my head round how to make a chemical oscillator in max is proving to be pretty intense.

For now if I can make an instrument that I can use to influence an existing sound that wpuld be a start - for ecample using the data generated by the automata in the jit.conway object and somehaw managing the lists of data generated to control (for simplicity) a sampled sound. If I can achieve that then i would have step 1 completed, step 2 would be changing the jit.conway object somehow so I could have more states in which the automata could be in giving more control.

any advice on what route to take would be great

(I'm looking through a massive amount of jitter objects at the moment but making slow progress)

quite possibly, Im at a stage of experimentation as my knowledge of max is pretty limited.  I dont want to devestate the fundamental parts that the object needs to work properly, rather find a way to specify the state of the automata as being in one of more varieties thatn alive / dead. 

the basis for the idea came from Chaosynth
http://www.sonicspot.com/chaosynth/chaosynth.html

For now if I can make an instrument that I can use to influence an existing sound that wpuld be a start - for ecample using the data generated by the automata in the jit.conway object and somehaw managing the lists of data generated to control (for simplicity) a sampled sound.  If I can achieve that then i would have step 1 completed,  step 2 would be changing the jit.conway object somehow so I could have more states in which the automata could be in giving more control.

any advice on what route to take would be great
(I'm looking through a massive amount of jitter objects at the moment but making slow progress)

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