Darwin Grosse's 20 Objects
HIVE MIND:
I ran into a situation where I needed a quick refresher and hopped over to the 20 Objects tutorial only to discover... BLANK.
http://20objects.com/ is still live, but it points to the actual tutorials on https://darwingrosse.com/ which appears to be no more...
Aside from the immediate value to a Max beginner, it was also an outstanding example of pedagogy. Sooooo...
Am I just braindead and it can be found somewhere else? If 'yes,' can some kind soul share a link? If 'no,' then...
I'd like to recreate and update it. I didn't know Darwin, but I think doing this doesn't violate his spirit or intent - that said I'm hoping there are folks here who did know him and can advise me...
And if I can get a blessing, I'd need a little help:
Most of the material is on Wayback Machine, BUT: many images are missing. In many cases the only adjacent text is, "start with this patch..." I'd need advice reconstructing.
Some of the links to external sources are long gone - advice needed for suitable substitutes, if any.
Might benefit from some slight editorial tweaking for best practices in Max 9?
I'd like to set this up as .MD files in a GitHub repo; I don't see any licensing info on the Wayback Machine archive - wondering what license type [if any] would best align with Darwin's intent?
20 Objects is too good to fade out, and I think still relevant to beginners...
thx, James H
Thanks Roman - yes, pulled all that stuff - but missing the conclusion page and many images...
ah i didnt see that you already mentioned wbm.
with these sites where every gone url resolves to "domain.com/landing" the wmb contextualmenu "does not work", recently this became a problem.
I use Darwin's 20 Objects in my Interactive Sound course at CU Boulder and I made an archive last September 2024 w/ the knowledge that domains and web hosting are not forever. I learned a lot from Darwin at his workshops for our CMKY electronic art festival (2008-2015), and I am reminded by his teachings to bring joy to my work. Zipped archive too big @6.8mb to attach here so posting on my google drive to share.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1buaXdBgh7y2GlB32HGMJAdN6nInl8fMO/view?usp=sharing
thanks so much David - I also found Alex Mesker's archive here: https://max-tricks.com/20-Objects/0.-Introduction. I'm slowly recreating as markdown in GitHub here: https://github.com/supertwist/20objects?tab=readme-ov-file and attempting to update to Max 9 as I go. - J