Revealing sections (expanding circles) of a jpeg

umma08's icon

Hi all,

i am trying to reveal a certain section of a jpeg (an expanding circle).

A jpeg will remain black until a point in time that i want to reveal a shape within the window, thus slowly revealing the section of the jpeg behind, while keeping the rest of the jpeg hidden.

Does anybody know how i could do this?

I have got as far as to getting a jpeg into a matrix, and then unpacking it, and then altering the alpha channels so that i start from a black image and then move to reveal the picture, but how would i go about revealing certain sections of the picture?

Any help would be much appreciated. File attached as far as i have got so far…

thankyou in advance!

Christopher Dobrian's icon

Suggested reading:

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

Example:

umma08's icon

that has helped so much, thankyou Christopher, and god bless these forums ;-)