The objective was to create an interactive environment with the premise of a 21st century ‘village fete’. Looking into what makes a fete and how this can be recreated with new interactions. The traditional village fete was analysed to see what underlying principles to find out of what one consisted. What did people remember from them? Why… Read more →
The setup for Rave On Air should have been very smooth today as the RC1 was prepared so all we had to do was boot up a computer, install the plugins and away… right? How wrong that is. After many problems with Macs, PC’s, connectors and lack of microphone input on G4s I finally booted… Read more →
Needed to do today: Need to ‘bang’ through a single number without it constantly updating. Send messages from Flash to Max. Playback from collisions in Flash. To start with the Beta that had been the focus of our efforts had ‘broken’ as certain tweaking had meant that a few files had been edited for the… Read more →
I have finally solved the problem of the ‘bang’ going off continuously in the MaxMSP window (and consequentially making everything else after it go off continuously) by asking for help. I posted a question on the Cycling 74 forum in the hope that somebody may have had a similar problem or someone might share their… Read more →
Flash is finally working with MaxMSP, for all the good it is going to do. The Macs in the interaction lab have yet to have Flash Server installed on them and the demo version of MaxMSP is runs out today on everyones laptops. This means that nobody can come in over the weekend and work,… Read more →
Progress until today had been slow and painful with few breakthroughs and a loss of direction recently as well as a feeling that contribution to the project had been lacking on my part. That changed when Javascript was abandoned in favour of Flash as Russell knows a lot of Flash. He progressed quickly through the… Read more →
After some experimentation and direction with regard to the best way to ‘draw’ in Max, the [GL] object library seems to be the way to go. The prototype was forced to refrash and redraw the screen by having a [metro] bang the [clear] element attached to the [lcd]. This meant that the screen flickered as… Read more →
After learning some cool things with LEDs and Max, Christian sat with each group and went over what he thought were important aspects that needed focus and in which direction to pursue them. This led to the discovery of embedded Java Script files that are executed within the program window of Max and displayed on… Read more →
Something really impressive that Max can do it tracking, with the right amount of time, effort and the correct use of objects of course. The tracking is a bit… skittish at best but that is probably due to a poorly lit environment for the task and also the fact that a poor quality built in… Read more →
Today there was a workshop on the Jitter and MasMSP combination allowing viewing of video and changing of colours. Learning more about Max and the fact that it can handle graphics in an external window (which can be placed on an external screen / projector. A comment from Christian had indicated that Processing may be… Read more →