you can use the builtin scanwrap functionality of jit.gl.multiple to do you your colors, simply passing in a 1D 4 cell matrix to the color input, but you have to restructure your position matrix slightly.

for hiding the body handles, simply disable gl.physdraw, or set @draw_bodies 0

Rob,

as always, thank you much for the concise and useful answer plus patch.

using the jit.noise object leaves me with one further question,

how would I control the four colors?

my pleasure.

change it to jit.matrix and use the setcell message: setcell 0 val 1 0 0 1, setcell 1 val 1 1 0 0 ... etc..., bang

after poking at this for an hour or so I have to admit I don't know how to do what you're suggesting. not sure what I'm doing wrong, having a difficult time finding any documentation that clarifies any help is appreciated

you needed to provide a final arg setting the number of cells, and you need to bang the matrix after setting the values. basic jit.matrix stuff, so make sure you look at jitter tutorial #2 if this doesn't make sense.

Thanks again, Rob. Really appreciate your generosity.

Read through Jitter Tutorial #2 again. I often understand the principles within the tutorial, and then have a difficult time applying them to the specifics of my patch(es).