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Marigold Maripol

i noticed there are primitives available in jit.gen for torus, sphere,  cylinder, plane,  and cone - yet there is no "cube". i am curious why that is and whether there is a simple way to write one.

hi all- 

i noticed there are primitives available in jit.gen for torus, sphere,  cylinder, plane,  and cone - yet there is no "cube". i am...

creating-a-cube-with-jitgen

creating a cube with jit.gen

Tim Horne

Got this great patch from the managing multiples article and just wondering is anyone able to say why there are black dots on the bottom of these grid shapes and have any ideas how to remove them, please? breaks the experience a bit with those on... I am referring to the sphere shapes - they have the block dots on the bottom when rotated.

https://cycling74.com/tutorials/managing-multiples-made-easy

[Attachment: ManagingMultiples.maxpat]
Got this great patch from the managing multiples article and just wondering is anyone able to say...

black-dots-on-multiplied-gridshape

Black Dots on Multiplied Gridshape

Deliverer

I would like to get control of reflectivity amount of 

If I connect a jit.gl.cubemap to the environment inlet of the 

.material will  fully reflect the environment. Great!

Since it doesn't seem possible to directly control the reflectivity inside the 

.material object (ok to tune diffuse or specular, but nothing regarding reflectivity…),  I tried to modulate the texture coming out the jit.gl.cubemap  with a divider inside a jit.gl.pix object: it doesn't work. Texture is made black.

And connecting a simple jit.gl.texture to the output of the the jit.gl.cubemap gives a strange result too: no more environment map, but a checkerboard…

Is that a bug? How to get control over the environment reflectivity of a 3D objects?

I would like to get control of reflectivity amount of jit.gl.material.

If I connect a jit.gl.cubemap to the environment inlet of the...

controlling-reflectivity-amount-of-a-jitglmaterial

controlling reflectivity amount of a jit.gl.material

Jon Williams

I'm inspired by this and similar videos by same author.  The tutorial mostly covers implementing the "motion extraction" technique using DaVinci Resolve, and I successfully followed the steps using KDENLiVE, to a certain degree.

Now, I'm trying to duplicate and/or expand on the technique using Jitter, but I'm having trouble with the last couple of steps, "color correction" and "playful recombination" or whatever.

By default this example patch opens "broken" right where I'm stuck, but if you send the "drawto world" message to the videoplanes, the "extracted motion" from the chickens clip will appear in the jit.world window.  It's working correctly when you see almost all of the pixels in jit.world window colored middle grey (because top layer shader does "color inversion and 50% opaque alpha" ), so only the pixels portraying motion pop out of the grey field (because top layer is also delayed by 5 frames)

I think what I need to do next is recombine the videoplane texture data into a single jit.gl.slab (or what?) before the texture data goes to jit.world and then write a slab-shader that can identify those grey pixels, substitute different colors, and or make them 0% opaque, say.  But I'm not sure that should work and haven't successfully implemented the slab idea or stumbled on anything else that works.   Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas?

Hi,

I'm inspired by this and similar videos by same author.  The tutorial mostly covers implementing the "motion extraction" technique...

extracting-motion-from-mostly-still-video-like-some-guy-on-youtube

Extracting Motion from mostly still video like some guy on YouTube

grigou

I have a sphere that is deformed by a procedural texture and then sent to a mesh.

If I activate the attributes lightning_enable 1 and/or cull_face 1 in the mesh, my shape disappears when I rotate on the x or z axis.

With these 2 attributes deactivated, I can rotate without any problem.

I want to be able to rotate with these attributes enabled without my shape disappearing.

I have a sphere that is deformed by a procedural texture and then sent to a mesh.

If I activate the attributes lightning_enable 1 and/or...

my-3d-shape-is-cut-off-during-rotation

my 3D shape is cut off during rotation

Christien Ayers

I've read through quite a few threads about this on this forum, but I haven't found (or realized I've found) a solution to this particular issue I'm having. I'm including a screenshot as opposed to a patch because my patch includes a bunch of abstractions. 

I've got a jit.movie object outputting a texture into a jit.gl.pix object, which scales and positions the video into jit.world. Currently, the texture is at the correct aspect ratio but I can't position the texture itself in any of the  space colored red. I know this is partly because the @preserve_aspect attribute is turned on for the jit.world object, but of course, once I turned that off, the texture is distorted. Is there a way to have the texture coming out of my jit.gl.pix object stretch to fit the window without altering the aspect ratio of the texture itself (which, again, is being fed into the jit.gl.pix object)? 

I've read through quite a few threads about this on this forum, but I haven't found (or realized I've found) a solution to this particular...

getting-rid-of-window-padding-without-distorting-aspect-ratio-of-video

Getting rid of window padding without distorting aspect ratio of video

soundyi

I am using digital artwork images (PNG) that have sRGB color space information to create audio visuals inside Max with Jitter.

Lacking a proper way to record the jitter output as a 4K video - the ProRes 4444 Codec has bug I reported to Cycling 74 Support in March and they are working on it, but no information when it will be resolved - I try to take the PNG image route.

 I use jit.maxtrix and exportimage - but I have no control (or missing the knowledge ;-) over the metadata that is written into the PNG files, hence they lack the sRGB color space information.

The problem : importing the PNGs (as an image sequence) into DaVinci Resolve to add the audio and render the video, the missing color space information leads to a very different colors - or in other words : the visual composition is ruined ;-).

The attached image "Jitter Export in DaVinci Resolve.png" makes it obvious.

With the attached patcher and the 2 sRGB images (Canvas.png and Colors.png) this problem can be reproduced - just follow the bubble comments in the patcher.

So I wonder if I am missing any option in jitter to write appropriate color space data into the PNGs.

By the way - the C74 article series "polish your pixels" and especially the 

 article is great on that subject and explains the RGB <-> sRGB challenge and solutions in jitter very well, but it lacks information when it comes to "store the stuff to disk".

As a workaround I see 2 possible routes : 

(1) write the missing metadata into the PNG by myself using a nodes.script and a npm package that does the file IO for me. A first research makes me believe that there are 2 essential PNG chunks that matter : gAMA and cHRM.

 to grab the images outside of Max and apply the metadata there - but I don't know if setting the PNG metadata is even possible in the Syphon apps.

The challenge : I hope that some day I can make this tool available to others and hence I want to limit the amount of secondary tools needed. So the Syphon route that requires another external app (Syphon Recorder or OBS or ?) is not that what I really want. 

On the other hand, I am fine with saving the visual composition to a PNG image sequence so that the other users only needs a video software like DaVinci Resolve (or I use ffmpeg and the shell object to render it from inside the Max patch) - but for this I need the correct color space data inside the PNGs.

What these metadata have to be, can be retrieved (via a node.script) from the original PNGs, that are exported from what ever digital artwork software that creates the "input images" for the jitter patch.

Hi there

I am using digital artwork images (PNG) that have sRGB color space information to create audio visuals inside Max with...

export-png-image-beyond-jitworld-with-color-space-information

export PNG image (beyond jit.world) with color space information

I was working on an abstraction that would need to know if a given jit.gl object has a jit.anim.node attached to it (either with a cord or @anim attribute), and if it has, which is its top-level one.

Turns out the answer is far more complicated than expected, because from my testings I found out that:

I made some fancy js code to programmatically determine what is the top-level user-created jit.anim.node for a given jit.gl object knowing that these implicit world_anim and world_anim_master exist. It works when the gl object has user-created anim.node attached to it, but sadly not if there is none, as I cannot guess if the name coming from its @anim attribute is the name of a user-created or implicitly created jit.anim.node.

My hope is that the answer to that last question is not really important and I can use the implicitly created jit.anim.node for that jit.gl object, but it will depend on the answer from the second question.

Here's a patch demonstrating my investigations:

I was working on an abstraction that would need to know if a given jit.gl object has a jit.anim.node attached to it (either with a cord or...

how-to-know-top-level-jitanimnode

How to know top-level jit.anim.node?

I have been experimenting a bit with jit.gen lately, but I think it would make some sense to convert my work into more standard code blocks. I know "codebox" exists as a code prompt - but is there a way to convert a pre-existing, patched bit of information into straight code? 

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