Lighting can get pretty confusing, pretty quickly. what started off as an exercise in trying to consolidate my knowledge about lighting has turned into this discussion and the accompanying patches. i’m publishing it here in the hope that it might be useful to those who are new to jitter.
part 2 looks at how to make use of opengl lighting parameters using jit.gl.sketch, inputing the values via a command list.
toxi has selected some videos of demos for his blog which illustrate some of the incredible skills of people coding quite detailed programmes in only 4k files.
I fail to see what benefit some spammers get from sending hundreds and hundreds of comments, with each comment containing hundreds of links to …. wherever. anyway, i just got hit by a stream of comments arriving to one of my posts. I only knew because my mail box was getting refilled almost [...]
p.storage is an abstraction/interface for max. it facilitates communication with the pattrstorage object and offers a variety of ways to manage your presets and settings.
please note that the latest version (5.02) of p.storage is here:
introducing-pstoragemarker-and-update-to-pstorage-502
the big D day arrived and … well, it just went. the australians and asians, followed by the europeans spent the day resetting their browsers to cycling 74’s site, finding nothing new, and then, finally, sleeping. i’m not sure what time it finally happened but, hey, i was sleeping too. i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in cycling’s offices the day they were releasing max 5. i imagine that the stress levels there were rising by the minute…
i’ve provided links to five films that i’ve made with brede korsmo over the last couple of years or so and are now available to watch on utube. they are: the arsonist, kalt, homage to the lost, heroin and police state.
i got tired of patching up the same old boxes when making a jitter opengl patch so started to design something that would be easy to call up and that would expose all the attributes to give me quick access to their values. this is what i came up with: p.jit.gl.* tools - a set of patches based around a template that can be used and customised for any jitter gl object.
to catch up on some of the work i’ve been doing, i’m posting a link to melanie jackson’s work, a global positioning system, which was part of her exhibition ‘road angel’ at arnolfini, bristol at the turn of the year.
I did the sound for the movie which you can see online: a global positioning system
following the success of our previous collaborations, I’m teaming up with brede korsmo again to produce a piece about finding our way in the city.
the light surgeons have brought together a series of installations with contributions from chris allen, rob rainbow, tim cowie, james price, lenka clayton, pete codling, marion lefebvre, millimetre and blast theory. also onedotzero are curating screenings, Q&As, sound installations and talks. the exhibition runs from 1st december to 10th december and is at the bargehouse, southbank, london.
the evil fairies have set their sights on a dark cobwebbed corner…
the shibboleth exhibition in dilston grove, london november 18 - december 9, featuring over 40 artists
teleport to another world: sounds from a wardrobe to escape london for a peaceful break in the country - my contribution to the show, plus brede korsmo films with pelado soundtracks
one of my tracks (MTV) has been released on the frequenzen list cd in support of resonance fm
finally i’ve got around to adding the new category that will host some Max/MSP/Jitter posts and patches for download. include in this first batch is p.decimator, p.storage, p.gl.sketch and some other Jitter files relating to the opengl commands glloadmatric and glmultmatrix.
I’ve uploaded a recording of function{dot} from the Open Books Canning House Library Performance. Its under the sounds link
a new version of open books will be staged at the canning house library, Belgrave Square, London, on the 19 november. further details
The film short by Brede Korsmo, with a pelado soundtrack, is currently online at the Electric Cinema, Bristol, as part of Electric Pavillions.
