Get the XRAY Package by Wesley Smith
Wesley Smith is a really smart guy. Many of us know and appreciate his extensive work as a Cycling '74 engineer, including rewriting and modernizing much of the Jitter code and co-creating Gen with Graham Wakefield. Before all of that, Wes got our attention by creating an incredibly useful set of Jitter objects called XRAY. If you are getting deep into Jitter, especially anything involving CV.jit or generative OpenGL geometry, then you'll want to have this package in your toolbox. Although many of them have seemingly esoteric purposes, or require some knowledge of Linear Algebra, the remarkable thing about these objects is that they solve some of the toughest problems you run into when you're deep into a Jitter patch and need to manipulate a matrix in a really specific way. These objects were obviously created by someone with real hands on experience with Jitter.
In my own personal use, I find I can't survive without xray.jit.cellcoords, xray.jit.cellvalue, and xray.jit.grid2tri. I recommend exploring this package, and then letting it sit around and checking it out every time you run into a seemingly impossible problem with a Jitter Matrix. There's a good chance you'll find the solution there. Get XRAY inside the Max 7 Package Manager where it has been updated to support both Windows and Mac (32 and 64-bit).
by Andrew Benson on January 26, 2016