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I was perusing the ADC documents and the recently published 'Leopard 

State of the Union' address, where it is mentioned that iChat will 

have a public API for integrating 3rd party applications into the 

I humbly submit the feature request (for jitter 2.0, or whatever, 

waaaayyyyy down the queue of important things), to have a jit.ichat 

object that allows submitting arbitrary matrix data to an iChat 

stream, as well as outputting something akin to 4 char 320x240 (or.. 

well, you know, whatever) matrices back out for the chat participants 

I am imagining something akin to Elisa (the iChat/AIM robot), but 

with an A/V capability, and the possibility of including chat 

participants into the AV stream, mixing sources, etc.

I think it could be fun, possibly interesting and open up some uses 

for distributed art. Then again, what the fuck do I know?

Of course, if there is a solution that is cross platform that works 

But that feature looks really fun regardless.

P.S. I am well aware I am dreaming, and that C74 has plenty of more 

important things to do. However, maybe some other industrious 

individual with spare time would be willing to take something like 

this on once 10.5 ships. I dont have enough c chops to do it (at 

I was perusing the ADC documents and the recently published 'Leopard  
State of the Union' address, where it is mentioned that iChat will  
have a public API for integrating 3rd party applications into the  
streaming video and audio capability.

I humbly submit the feature request (for jitter 2.0, or whatever,  
waaaayyyyy down the queue of important things), to have a jit.ichat  
object that allows submitting arbitrary matrix data to an iChat  
stream, as well as outputting something akin to 4 char 320x240 (or..  
well, you know, whatever) matrices back out for the chat participants  
incoming video and audio data.

I am imagining something akin to Elisa (the iChat/AIM robot), but  
with an A/V capability, and the possibility of including chat  
participants into the AV stream, mixing sources, etc.

I think it could be fun, possibly interesting and open up some uses  
for distributed art. Then again, what the fuck do I know?

Of course, if there is a solution that is cross platform that works  
well, that would be the way to go.

P.S. I am well aware I am dreaming, and that C74 has plenty of more  
important things to do. However, maybe some other industrious  
individual with spare time would be willing to take something like  
this on once 10.5 ships. I dont have enough c chops to do it (at  
least now).

far-off-feature-request-for-10-5-jitter-2-x-ichat-av-integration

that would be fun. Ive done jams by routing the ichat audio through soundflower. It sure would be fun to start up a chat and have your video be processed.

that would be fun.  Ive done jams by routing the ichat audio through soundflower.  It sure would be fun to start up a chat and have your video be processed.


another potentially cool thing is that ichat allows chats with 

On Feb 4, 2007, at 10:26 PM, Nicholas C. Raftis III wrote:

> that would be fun. Ive done jams by routing the ichat audio 

> through soundflower. It sure would be fun to start up a chat and 

another potentially cool thing is that ichat allows chats with  
multiple particiants for video.

> that would be fun.  Ive done jams by routing the ichat audio  
> through soundflower.  It sure would be fun to start up a chat and  
> have your video be processed.

Far off feature request for 10.5+ jitter 2.x - iChat AV integration.