MAX/MSP project - Friendly Circle
From Physical Programming
For my major project, I decided to teach myself MAX/MSP/Jitter and experiment with interactive moving imagery. I had grand plans - nebulas pulsating with the sweep of a violin bow; music being translated through a knitting machine... Many ideas. I decided instead to start small.
MAX/MSP/Jitter began as an open source program, and although it isn't any more, it still has an incredibly generous knowledge sharing culture with excellent tutorials, resources and forums.
www.cycling74.com
Spending so much time with a colourful little shape on a screen, I developed some emotional attachment, and gave it a name, Friendly Circle.
- Procedural drawing patch (bottom)
- Links to patches for different movement controls (top)
Main control patches (clockwise from top left)
- Switch for different movement modes
- Metronome
- Movement modes and sizing (x,y)
- Drunk colour (rgb)
- Audio controlled colour calibration
- Audio on/off and matrix for low, mid, high, amplitude frequencies
- LCD (procedural drawing) send to Jitter Window patch (video)
- LCD window with size and procedural drawing (friendlycircle) inputs
- Motion tracking patch
Presentation mode of control switches
Movement - counter patch
Movement - line patch
Movement - drunk patch
Movement - event driven patch (for motion tracking)
Movement - click tracking patch
Colour - drunk colour patch
Audio patch - scales audio signal to rgb values for colour control
