[HOW TO?] Discriminate pixels

b.low's icon

Hi, I am presently trying to discriminate pixels out of a jitter livefeed matrix 320 x 240. What I want to do is basically take one pixel out of each frame of the livefeed video and transfer each one of them (one after the other) to a new matrix - creating a still image constituted pixel by pixel from a pixel out of each frame of the stream of video. Basically "summing up" a video into a single image - in an abstract way.

ex:

Pixel 0 0 of first frame of the live video matrix would be outputted to pixel 0 0 of the "still" matrix and kept there.
Pixel 1 0 of second frame of the live video matrix would be outputted to pixel 1 0 of the "still" matrix and kept there.
Pixel 2 0 of third frame of the live video matrix would be outputted to pixel three of the "still" matrix and kept there.
etc...

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

I have come to the point where it should work - but does not ahah.
Would anyone of you have a hint for why it is not working out?

thank you :)

jonathanb's icon

Without being able to check out your patch, this might help. I recently modified a basic slit scan patch to do pretty much what you're looking to do. It's a little rough, but it works.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

b.low's icon

Wow! That is just such an help - I better understand now what errors I had done!
Thank you a lot!! A lot! :)