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I'm rigging light sensors to a large book such that each page has a tab that covers a sensor and the idea is that when that sensor is covered "x" video is projected onto that page of the book.

Has anyone developed a MAX/MSP_jitter patch that might work with this project with a little tinkering. Basically I need to have 8 sensors that each point to a different video file. If anyone knows a similar project they can point me to that would be great.

The video files are all 24 fps HD and I'm wondering if that's going to be a problem with MAX/Jitter. Can I have Max just turn the videos on in quicktime?

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Yes, I had someone do pretty much exactly the same project in my class last year.

Max has an arduino input which, once you've programmed your arduino you can get value incoming to max.

My classmate had the light sensors talking to max, so that each light sensor sent out a bang which he then in turn, connected to a simple jit.qt object.

Anything like a select object can be used to generate quicktime clips when sent given values.

Arduino would probably be the easiest and best way to go, for taking something like light values, and turning them into values in max. I've found once you can turn information like light values in data, and bring it into max, it is fairly easy to use that data to control things like movie playback.

I don't have the actual patch, but I hope this helps.

Haven't tested this, but you get the idea.

light sensor activated video project - seeking advice/patches