scaled radial deadzone for gamepad joystick
ported from python to max: https://github.com/Minimuino/thumbstick-deadzones

scaled radial deadzone.maxpat
Max Patch
Nice article!
I tried to simplify your port a bit by using lists as much as possible.
Also made a jit.gen version to produce visualization like in the github readme.
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.