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just to prove this UDP thing works…
One computer playing UT is sending info to my computer. (this processing script is printing everything the computer is recieving)

The thing is this all wont work on one computer… if I run unreal and processing on the same computer it dosnt work?
I think it has something to do with UDP and having to travel over a network, and not working locally…

p.s. It look like Im going to be doing a workshop in Manchester for the Futuresonic festival. The workshop is about game modding (and in theory will be using this whole UDP thing). Handily I wont be doing it alone, it will be a joint thing with Tom Betts.
Out of interest it will be a 3 day thing,
1st day - UnrealEditor, and creating your own maps
2nd day - Getting game data out of Unreal and to PD (maby processing too)
3rd day - Making something with it (something noisy)

New libraries posted! Switchboard from Jeff Crouse, jm-Etude (jMusic) library from Daniel Dihardja, MovieMaker from Daniel Shiffman, LibCV from toxi, and Mersenne Twister from Marius Watz

I just saw this post by Marius Watz over at Code & Form about Daniel Dihardja’s still-beta MIDI library for Processing, entitled jm-Etude. Basically, it’s an internal sequencer for Processing.

This is really good news for me. Most of my machines for the abstractmachine project use MIDI via this commerically idiotic little xtra for Director. I do it this way because I need to be able to compose musical phrases, and not just play musical notes. I tried many years ago to build rhythmic structures via Director, but the timing just wasn’t there. If you’re working with samples, you might be able to get away with it, or with some abstract sound synthesis, but not when it comes to note-for-note interactive composition; i.e. if you don’t have a sequencer, you can forget the gabber machine gun. I wanted to keep the abstractmachine project in a more accessible language than C (Processing wasn’t available back in 2001) as pretty much all of my code gets recycled by a student in some form or another. So I ended up with Director and the aforementioned xtra that is now killing me.

For some examples of what I’m talking about, you can try out Trane or Cubed, and for a more entertaining example you can check out this 8=8 video:

We just couldn’t do shit like that without an easily programmable MIDI sequencer running in the background. But hope is now there to finally pry us from the last pitiful grip on the Director platform, and that in maybe a year’s time I can rewrite these machines for a more foreward-compatible platform (merci open source! merci Processing!).

Even though I’ve just released a library using Sun’s JMF hours ago, I didn’t actually explain too well the fact of it being a fairly dead technology, last updated in 2004. On the other hand JMF did have huge potential as framework, especially for streaming, mixing and (re)encoding timebased media.

The whole situation reminds me of Macrodobe Director. There’s a great product with huge potential being killed off slowly, slowly, very slowly due to corporate internal politics. To their defence, at least Director still is receiving updates, with doubtful new features, though, instead of improving keyfeatures like the 3D engine, which hasn’t been updated since sometime around 2001(?). Both products still have quite an active development community. Unlike in Lingoland, some members in the JMF camp started taking things into their own hands and started re-implementing JMF from scratch as opensource initiative. Their project is called Freedom for Media in Java (FMJ) and its first release has just been announced.

Quoting from Ken Larson’s announcement this morning, this looks very promising:

1. Video capture on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
2. Audio and Video playback on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. DirectShow and Quicktime are wrapped used by FMJ on Windows and Mac OS X, respectively. Linux video playback currently requires JMF for demux/codec.

Audio Formats supported:
WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, OGG. Some WAV formats may not work yet, as WAV is a container format with many internal formats.

Video Formats supported:
On Windows and Mac OS X: any format supported by the native system (DirectShow/Quicktime).

Way to go! I’ll testdrive if I can get my stuff to work with this asap…

Gerald Kogler ha traducido el clásico Processing Tutorial for Macromedia Minds de Josh Nimoy al castellano. Tal y como su nombre indica, si vienes de entornos como flash o director es de lo mejorcito para hacerte con la herramienta. Igualmente, dado que es un tutorial de iniciación, es una buena lectura para los que quieran dar el salto:

Tutorial de Processing para Mentes Macromedia.

New software from Aether Architecture added to the exhibition.

I am about to redesign my weblog, including the style and the direction of thinking. That’s why I am askying myself a question, that *thank god* english natives don’t have to ask. Should I continue in English, or switch to German?

I know, that my written German is much better than my Euroenglish is. Writing (especially in native) is something I really love, but on the other hand I would discontinue to write for fellow readers of this blog, or the international blogosphere in general. This is something really hard to decide, so comments on this posting could maybe lead into a direction.

I am about to redesign my weblog, including the style and the direction of thinking. That’s why I am askying myself a question, that *thank god* english natives don’t have to ask. Should I continue in English, or switch to German?

I know, that my written German is much better than my Euroenglish is. Writing (especially in native) is something I really love, but on the other hand I would discontinue to write for fellow readers of this blog, or the international blogosphere in general. This is something really hard to decide, so comments on this posting could maybe lead into a direction.