Recently, I asked the Modul8 folks whether it was possible (and practical) to pass video between applications (http://www.garagecube.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3211). I see two big advantages for visualists here: seamless transitions between programs during sets and chaining of programs (so that you can plug the sophisticated processing of Jitter into the sophisticated interface of Modul8 and vice versa, for example). I was told:

> As far as I know I don't think it is possible to share VRAM buffers between two different processes in OS X.

The final frame in Modul8 is in VRAM so it would require first to copy it to RAM. Then the frame should be transfered to the other application using an inter-process mechanism. There are various ways to do that... Cocoa has a very easy API for this purpose. It allows an application to call a function from another process in order to share functions and datas. This is something I could implement pretty easily. It would allow any application to grab frame or send keywords to Modul8. Could be interesting.

Now I don't know well Max, so I don't know if it is possible to access this kind of API from it.

---and when i asked what API that was, Yves said:

> Well, basically I was referring to the distributed objects available in the Cocoa API.

Currently it could be accessed from Objective-C, Java or Python. So I guess a Max plug-in needs to be written. Now if there is a protocol supported by Max that allows frames to be transferred let me know.

Regarding distributed objects:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Di strObjects/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000102i

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Thoughts? I would love to see this happen.

thanks, dan