nice Puredata patch ..

[Martin Naef]

Kai,

K9 Kai Niggemann wrote:
>> How's the book? Is it focusing a lot on the language itself, or rather

> For me the book is excellent. I have taken a class on Java, but that  
> was a while ago, and I have been learning the basics of MaxMSP, but I  
> lack the real introduction to programming. It starts very very basic,  
> just what I needed. But it moves on to much more sophisticated things,  
> machine vision, integrating internet data and creating sound with  
> processing.

I'll have a look at link - from what you describe, it's probably not 
what I need. I rather need something that deals with concepts of 
algorithmic art creation, and not so much on how to implement them.

> I can imagine that there would be better books to inspire you though,  
> if you know about programming (and have a decent grip on Java or Java- 
> based languages)

I'm not a Java expert, but I might want to take ideas from the 
processing community and exploit them inside my own real-time 
environments or even Maya.

> right now I am still learning and happy when I get the white ball to  
> bounce on the grey background with my mouse cursor;) I do have some  
> ideas what I'd like to do, but I won't tell just yet...;)

Ok, we're all waiting for the announcement then... ;-)

> what is it that you do with max/MSP?

- The main thing recently has been working with auralisation. We're 
using Max/MSP to play back ambisonic recordings and simulations in our 
3D sound lab.

- I've also used Max/Jitter as a video feed and manipulator for the 
Living Canvas project (http://research.navisto.ch/livingcanvas.html). 
The performance-critical stuff there is C++, but it makes a lot of sense 
to use Max as the performance tool for the texture side of things.

- I've also used Max/Jitter to drive the projections for the "Dance of 
the Spirits" project (http://ilona.navisto.ch/projects.html).

Bye
Martin


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