basicStage

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Check out:

• Flying Pig / Robives: animations of many kinetic mechanisms for creating movement/gesture
• Cornel Kmoddl: video catalog of kinetic mechanisms
• Mekanizmalar: collection of simple and sophisticated kinetic mechanisms in video/animation
• Woodgears: interactive gear designing website

The patches from class are here: animated-theater-6-11.2012

NB Video. Jump forward to ~1:30 to begin!

NB 1.  When there’s a length or an option, you can type it (if you can)
NB 2.  Use a two button mouse, use a big/second screen (if you can)

drawing: (you can either click to draw or type the dimensions you want)

• points
• circle
• line
• rec
• polyline
• curve

measurements:

• length: length of line or curve
• distance: distance between two points
• area: area of a surface

geometric transformation:

• orient: good when the thing you’re moving is asymmetric/sided/chiral
• offset: scale and copy
• scale1D: good for resizing lines
• scale2D: good for resizing flat shapes
• scale (you can indicate with numbers the scaling factor)
• move
• copy
• arraycrv: orient and copy

2d-3d-2d:

• loft: make connecting surface between two lines/curves
• extrude
• make2d: create 2d shape of selected surface, according to current view
• unrollSrf: turn a volume into flat components
• dupBorders: produce curve from boundary of a surface

cutting/expanding:

• explode
• split: divides a line/curve/surface at a center point/line/intersective-surf/curv
• trim: split + delete
• extend
• rebuild

make many out of one:

• divide: dividing lines/curves into equal parts
• rebuild: either turn cuves into lines or make ugly curves pretty curves

housekeeping/getting-around:

• layer: show layers window (use many layers!)
• show/hide
• setPt
• zs: zoom set, show you just the selected object in the active transport
• join: make one curve out of many segements
• group

Here are a few places to search if you want to know whether something is possible in Max:

• Cycling ’74 Forum: Many years of conversation among max users; use the Advanced Forum Search to see of someone else has come across your inquiry
• MaxObjects.com: Excellent database of 3-rd Party development for Max; this are patches and externals made by people outside of Cycling ’74 that do cool and quirky things.
• Jitter Recipe Books by Andrew Benson: A great set of “simple” Max patches for advanced video applications; excellent tutorials for advanced Jitter work.

Here are the patches I made in class today that demonstrate simple motion tracking controlling a LED, motion tracking for assessing activity in zones, sensor connected to playback speed and filter parameters of a sound file, sensor connected to servo with recording/playback i.e. memory.

Remember also to download the newest version of Maxuino; throw out the old version (alpha-12) and replace it with the new (alpha-13).  This version allows you to save the settings of your teensy (i.e. serial port, pin-mode, …).

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