Onto Rainbows | Kyd Campbell

so… Roc said he made a Unix code that destroys image like this and maybe it can be nicer and simpler than directly using pd to break up the images. mysterious still to me. some new news soon.

o right, since this is an online thing and other people can read it I guess I should give a rapido update.

I got back to working on the rainbows thanks to the Canada Council and I got to doing that in Lisbon Portugal thanks to André Gonçalvez and countless others who have nursed me back to health over the past 6 months.

So the past entries here are kind of a mess now. The tutorial bits are ok, the course notes and stuff but the development of the project are starting fresh. I am still using the parts that patrick developed and for now we can get images from a usb device onto the computer and make a breaking down slideshow.

I will try to keep this site updated as I am working. I am at the HOME Residency in Lisbon, Portugal. Damin Stewart [ sound artist Frey from New Zealand] is here as well for another few days. We had a ncie talk yesterday about collective production and authorship, while eating Pasteis De Bellem [great pasteries]. As for as my production goes, there just isn’t a lot I can do completely alone. This project in particular depends so much on having collaborators and teachers and the imput of all these people has really formed and evolved the project. So I don’t see it as just my project and once its done I guess it will have a BIG list of authors. Including the Dell…which has already proved its strong personality on numerous occasions.

lowdown:

-preparing for June 2nd installation of CT_BT_GRAFFITI at the Octas Gala.

-getting deeper into rainbows

I have been looking for a used laptop that can be the hack up for a bunch of upcoming projects. I haven’t found the right one yet, most of them are just way tooo ugly. And since I am in the land of really ugly pcs, I decided to would try to get the twin monsters up and running. Yovo’s computer, as it turns out… is actually quite a good machine. Thanks to Meinhard for teaching me how to get into the bios and to Patrick for reminding me again a  couple hours later after I had already forgotten!

that said…. the mouse doesn’t work. And so I went and got a USB mouse, which also does not work! I don’t know if it’s a mouse port thing or maybe the Ubuntu isn’t recognising it… but that would just be so complex and no fun… so actually I hope the port is dead. (hardware problems actually make me feel better! software issues are more scary) But in case you wanted to know, the computer shop on Wellington has really cheap parts and mice!

So I decided to try the big monster, Dan’s old computer, which  was the hottest thing on the market…back in 1998!!!  It’s way too loud so I disconnected the hardrive and put in the new drive that I got at a garage sale for 10$. That made it quiet but for some reason the installation is not working. It is super slow and doesn’t get far at all before the computer shut down!  it’s a pentium2 and that’s just a bit ancient so I prefer to stick with the other computer if possible or go back to looking for a laptop.

I do feel good though that I now have made a disk with the newest version of Ubuntu and it seems to be quite straight forward to install as long as the hardware is ok. It’s good for me to open the computers, though i realize i have a very diffrent relationship with my mac then with these pcs… in fact my mac is even essential for the process of getting the pcs to work as i need it to download the software and search for help files.

I also got a E Zblue120 bluetooth thingmy (the word dongle is somehow really disgusting, I will have to find a new one).  We have used one the same or similar before with the project so once I am rolling I think this one will work fine.

I am meeting Patrick on Thursday to talk about the Rainbows.

there has been a bit of development about the Bluetooth projects. now time to get cracking really on them. It looks like the Ville de Montreal program ‘Montreal Internationale” is interested in having live/installations of the project during 2 gala cocktails in the coming months. Time to really brainstorm about content and make sure the software is up to date for one of my pcs. this might include getting down to installing Ubuntu on one of the machines as their Windows op systems are completely foreign to me and they’re out of date anyways. Always a perfect time to change.

The next place the was thinking about this project was the IETM festival but I don’t know if they can manage to host it or how it fits into their program so this is still pending.

Finally it seems like the apple service lab is still interested, I dropped off a brief proposal to them. At some point maybe I will be in good shape to take a couple of projects to them for the screen as well. But this is a bit hard for me because I really need a technical team that wants to get involved as well. It’s super hard to work outside of school and outside of an art center! and then with that last comment I stay a bit confused because actually I am in an art center! All the time, everyday, really close so I’m not sure why it’s so lonely out here! carrying on.

if you have nny questions or know anyone that might want to bget involved with this Bluetooth stuff, let me know. +++

Rainbows a project by the NJP !

I just submitted this project to the Pure Data convention. I will get the answer on April 9th.
The Pd convention will be held in Montreal in August, 2007.

check out the full project description HERE
[and feel welcome to giggle about the silly diagram]

thanks to the Doldrums[OK] for this image

this is a tuff looking graphic of some kind of rainbow machine! yikes!

GEM!

gem and pd are a bit separate

1st - put object ‘gemwin’
which creates a window for gem
which has a giant help file ;]
‘dimen’ message- to make the size YX axis
‘create’ message - to get he window open
‘destroy’ message to get the window closed
when you choose destroy, pd may crash… so save your patch first
generally the middle point is the origin
by default, all that we put in this virtual space, will be centered
Gem is 3D basically but we can place a flat object into it
’square’ object - makes a flat square
‘gemhead’ - essential to get the created object into the gemwin
This is active! it will place the object into gemwin immediate once connected. umbilical cord
this does not even need t be in the same patch, just connected anywhere in pd while you are running it.
put a number into the other plug and it affects the size proportion of the new object
1 is the default size, its a set proportion in relation to your gemwin size
[other numbers make it bigger/smaller proportionally]
these defaults proportions are ok as in the end output any images and stuff will be full screen.

‘draw fill’ - make the object full
‘draw line’ - makes the object a contour
‘draw point’ -
for each object to be independent in gem, each one needs a gemhead
overlapping - usually the newly created object is over the older one

ctrl-D - duplicates, a better option then ctrl-V ;]

‘colorRGB’ - can give it arguments also (0/1)
‘alpha’ - gives the colorRGB transparency, with a 4th argument
can
-use the transparency to change colours!
‘rotateYXZ’ - rotates the object on the central point of the window
(Z is depth!)
‘translateXYZ’ -
toggle in gemhead will hide the object from displaying

alex quessy told me to keep an eye our for these objects