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Sabina Covarrubias

Can someone please help me understand how to avoid this visual “jitter” or “noise”? It looks like small squares or tearing, whereas it should appear as a smooth, flat surface.

, or any type of quads or triangles. I specifically need to use these draw modes.

Is there any trick to avoid this visual noise while still using 

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Hello,

Can someone please help me understand how to avoid this visual “jitter” or “noise”?...

how-to-avoid-visual-noise-in-quands-or-triangles-polygon-drawmode

How to avoid "visual noise"  using jit.slide in quads or triangles, or  polygon  draw_mode ? 

Julien Bayle

it made a while. Hope everyone fine here. 

A couple of questions more C74 oriented to.

I have some habits using GL contexts and GPU things (like bypassing jit.gl.pix etc) for saving GPU (& CPU if some parameters are flowing too) but I wanted to clarify them. For instance, jit.fx... family, as a comparison, got a bypass internal attributes/features , so nowadays, this is the way, I understand.

Does a jit.gl.node consume something if it is "directed" by changing the drawto to a null context ? Is it "better" to disable it (enable 0) ?

Does a GL 3D objects (I mean gridshape, sketch etc etc) has to be disable too if it is rendered by a jit.gl.node which have been disabled ? More precisely, do I have to disable and/or switch drawto  to null the jit.gl.node AND disable GL 3D objects too ?

I used to do both, but maybe the rendering context (jit.gl.node) is the only one to be switched (drawto, etc)

Maybe, some other questions will come here.

Hi mates,

it made a while. Hope everyone fine here. 

A couple of questions more C74 oriented to.

I have some habits using GL contexts...

gl-rendering-context-switching-gl-objects-and-cpugpu-saving

GL Rendering context switching, GL Objects & cpu/gpu saving

aartcore

Is there a way to rotate the anim.path like the jit.gl.path with the orient function. I want the path with pathstyle ribbon to lay flat. If i use the rotatexyz on the the jit.gl.path the animation of the gridshape doesn't follow..

Is there a way to rotate the anim.path like the jit.gl.path with the orient function. I want the path with pathstyle ribbon to lay flat. If...

jitanimpath-ribbon-orient-rotation

jit.anim.path ribbon orient / rotation

Conall Ó Maoláin

I'm working on this spectrum visualiser and I want to write it in a shader. 

I've gotten stuck with avoiding the interpolation between fragments. I tried getting the floor of a scaled up UV to be my pixels but that didn't work. 

To be honest it looks alright with the interpolation but it's not really what I'm going for and I'd like to know how to turn it off. 

I've included the jit.gen patch as a reference too.

Hello, 
I'm working on this spectrum visualiser and I want to write it in a shader. 
I've gotten stuck with avoiding the interpolation...

interpolated-fragments-in-glsl

Interpolated fragments in GLSL 

Eardrum Nibbler

For an art project of a friend he asked me if i could make a  patch where there is a live webcam input that is projected in a room with a delay on the output of the video.

The delay should be a minimum of 10 minutes and up to 30 minutes.

I had a try with the Delayr in Vizzie. There is only a delay of 120 frames.

I tryed to go into delayr to change this to 30 000 frames so I can get 10 minutes, but I am lost in the patch.

Maybe patching a delayr with 30 000 frames delay?

Hello, 

For an art project of a friend he asked me if i could make a  patch where there is a live webcam input that is projected in a room...

video-delay-with-jitter

video delay with jitter

agustin issidoro

I am trying to get some 1 plane displacement maps that present irregular patterns/irregular width and height, as opposed to the regular pixel grid. 

I am starting from noise (for example, jit.bfg with fractal basis) and then going to jit.gen to offset UV coordinates, but this is of course not doing the trick. Does anyone has a clue? I upload a reference for what I am after, more or less.

Hi all!

I am trying to get some 1 plane displacement maps that present irregular patterns/irregular width and height, as opposed to the...

irregular-grid-displacement-maps-jitter-jitgen

Irregular grid displacement maps - Jitter - jit.gen

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

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?

Does any of you Max insiders and jitter wizards know what 

This is the last task I get in crash reports (EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)). The funny thing is that the crash can be triggered with various actions, which are at first glance completely unrelated to each other, and don't always provoke a crash, but every time it does, the last task is alway

. Sometimes, by looking at the previous tasks, it seems related to loading equirectangular maps into jit.gl.environment, sometimes to some jit.gl.slab, sometimes it's harder to say.

It comes from a gigantic patch with dozens of subpatchers and many interdependencies, so this + the irregularities of the crashes makes them very difficult to troubleshoot. The only constant is this task 0 

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