anamaria

Is there a nicer way to calculate acceleration of one sensor signal. My max patch has some problems - the acceleration value does not go back to 0 when the signal stops on a certain value ...

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calculating-acceleration

Here's a handy utility I got from forum regular timloyd. It will give you an acceleration value which returns to zero when the number stream stops:

This should do what you need but if not, search the forum for "rate of change",

This should do what you need but if not, search the forum for "rate of change",
Brendan


calculating acceleration