DiGiTaLFX

After doing a show using a Milkdrop preset that affectionately became known as Scatman, I decided to reconstruct the little dancing dude in Jitter. This is the result. I hope someone can have a bit of fun playing with him, but more importantly I was wondering whether anyone has any ideas on how I've implemented this. Does it seem the most obvious/efficient way to do this? Would love to see if anyone can come up with alternative implementations. Is some GLSL possible in anyway?

Comes in 2 parts - a js file and the patch. Enjoy!

sharing-is-fun-dancing-stick-man

OK I've just attached the files as a ZIP, as the forum obv doesn't deal very well with JavaScript. Also included a quick screen grab too.

The first optimization that comes to mind is to use java instead of javascript as the porting would be quite straight. Imagine a whole hall with lots of these nice dancing fellas ;-)

In regards the shader, maybe something can be done with a fragment pair, but as you can see most of the data need to be retrieved into jitter matrices so I would suggest to stick to it without touching the gpu. Maybe a nice phong shading would make the fella look cutter!

Hey! thanks for sharing.
The first optimization that comes to mind is to use java instead of javascript as the porting would be quite straight. Imagine a whole hall with lots of these nice dancing fellas ;-)

Well ok I guess I realise that java performs better than JavaScript (can't wait for Max 6), but I was more thinking in terms of optimising the OpenGL side of things and not the Max side of things. For example could a vertex shader be used to move the verticies rather than continually pushing a new matrix to the gpu for each frame?

[sharing is fun] dancing stick man