Who are you? How are you using jitter?

one of my students is using it to store and access different modal
scales.

another one is processing the RSS feed for craigslist casual encounters.

i use it to hypnotize infants.

i think gregory taylor makes gestural tapestries.

Happily, I'm a *voluntary* affliction (for c74 listeners,
anyway). Everyone whines about how mellow I am
now and occasionally berates me for forcing *them*
to tell people to STFW/RTFM, etc. So far, no satisfactory
Jitter patches to accompany the RTQE webcast that
don't look suspiciously like kin to the tiresome throbbing
technotorus that follows you around the room, or I'd
probably be more visible. :-)

I think you guys need to lighten up. I mean seriously, you might burst a blood vessel. :)

That XML thing sounds cool. How is max useful for that kind of thing?

It would be interesting to compose video based on daily RSS feeds. Warp 3d text or something along those lines.

Besides occasionally going outside and performing with some of my
openGL patches I've used some jitter in video post production to do
effect work that would otherwise be very tiresome with after effects,
etc, mostly music videos - Hip Hop ( for The Roots).

*shrug*

v a d e //

www.vade.info
abstrakt.vade.info

Here is a patch to get you going:

http://abstrakt.vade.info/?page_id=38

it uses Jasch's excellent detox object for xml parsing, and his
string library as well.

v a d e //

www.vade.info
abstrakt.vade.info

Joshua's good advice deserves a response in
kind:

1. Nearly any problem in Max/MSP/Jitter benefits
from being understood in terms of seeing it as
data being output from something that needs to
be transformed before being sent as data to
something else [where it works as input]. NOT
understanding that is a big reason why some
new users don't bother to learn anything about
messages and data formats, and also why those
same people spend so much of their lives doing
"cargo cult patching" [i.e. randomly connecting
things together with no particular understanding
of the data moving down the wires/pipes].

2. Don't assume that there is either a single external
object that performs any given function you may
want or require, or that there is a single solution or
"proper" solution to something you want to do. The
search for idiosyncratic solutions is a habit that
will serve your art well in general - and, once
you have your own solutions, the process of working
to optimize things is the second great school of
programming.

3. In the long run, the perceived efficiency of the patch
grovel is illusory with respect to the insight gained
from an attempt to solve the problem that confronts you.
Once found, shared solutions can be a formidable
source of insight - having mastered the habits of
thought the solution requires, the work of others
can be appreciated as embodying the results of a
similar search by others in a way that may generate
other insights for you.

All great insight guys.

I'm going though the Andrew GL tutorials and they are amazing.

They are really helping me to understand what is going on. I don't quite understand trigger yet but I'm sure I will get there.

I think you guys are forgetting about the creative part of max. Sometimes the ideas are more important the fancy coding.

A couple of things I've learned:

Break everything down into small pieces. If you try to skip steps then you will never get to the end. If you first have an idea so you think. Ok, this is what I want to do. How do I get there? This is the object I think will do it. How does it work? Print it up and see how the data is moving.

One of the most complicated things to do is move a lot of data. Lists are very hard to deal with. I recently discovered the spray object. Cool stuff, I used it to trigger a bunch of line objects, and then send them out a random outlet. It was very difficult to deal with that much data. It was worth it though. I based it off of Andrew’s animation tutorial and really made that thing dance. Any ideas on how I might edit that tutorial more to make it really cool? I've got it set up so that my drum machine is making the animation dance. You know, #31 animator.

Also is there anyway to edit the backdrop of GL stuff without adding more GL objects. I know I can do colors but that seems kind of dull.