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Hello, I'm a loss for search terms here. I'm guessing that my question has been answered on the forum somewhere before but I'm having trouble describing my issue. I have a [function] object with a very complex data set. I would like to be able to simplify that data, pruning points that are in extraneous and leaving only the essential outline of the original data. Ideally, this process could be scaled so that at one extreme you would have the original function, at the other extreme, you would have only the vaguest representation of it, and between those extremes would be a continuous interpolation of the data. If anyone is familiar with the Bach Project (

 they have an object called bach.reducefunction that does this exact thing with their version of function. I would like to be able to do it with Max only objects. Can anyone help out? Thanks!

Hello, I'm a loss for search terms here. I'm guessing that my question has been answered on the forum somewhere before but I'm having trouble describing my issue. I have a [function] object with a very complex data set. I would like to be able to simplify that data, pruning points that are in extraneous and leaving only the essential outline of the original data. Ideally, this process could be scaled so that at one extreme you would have the original function, at the other extreme, you would have only the vaguest representation of it, and between those extremes would be a continuous interpolation of the data. If anyone is familiar with the Bach Project (http://www.bachproject.net/), they have an object called bach.reducefunction that does this exact thing with their version of function. I would like to be able to do it with Max only objects. Can anyone help out? Thanks!


simplifying-data-in-function

I haven't seen that object, but this should get you started. To fade back to the original I would store all values in a coll somewhere and then send to the function object accordingly.

edit - ignore the scale gate thing, you need to find whether it will hit the low or high limit then add/minus respectively.

Hi Mike S., thanks for the code. After thinking it over, I was curious if perhaps running some sort of algorithm to prune consecutive line segments that have similar slopes would work better.

Yeah that's a bit more involved, certainly doable though

Simplifying Data in Function