of the disavantages of having a lot of bright, energetic students– way too
many ideas to work on.
However, there are three new items in the beta folder at
ftp://arts.ucsc.edu/pub/ems/Lobjects
LprefUB is a Universal Binary version of Lpref. This is a complete rewrite to
work with plists in the new preferences architecture. One interesting feature
is that it will return the media access control address for the machine it is
installed on. This may be useful for copy protection schemes.
Lpath is a new object that controls linear motion in 3D space. You give it
target coordinates, and bangs will trigger intermediate coordinates to the
destination. Timing is internal, so the motion is smooth under heavy jitter
processing.
Lorbit controls motion in a 3D orbit around a given origin. You specify
gravity, an initial position and an initial velocity, and see what happens. Or,
you specify a position and axis, and the object will calculate and execute a
pretty orbit.
I don’t have an intel machine to test these, so I appreciate feedback from
those who make them work.
pqe
—
Peter Elsea
Director, Electronic Music Studios
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/index.html
elsea@ucsc.edu
get the Lobjects and Maxtutors at ftp://arts.ucsc.edu/pub/ems/
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