I've had some fun with [pix_mix]... it's good for blending two pictures together... the only requirement is that the image sizes must match, which can be a pain for different sized images... additionally, if you use Gem to wrap a video file to a texture using [pix_texture] you can then use [pix_mix] to blend between the two videos... try playing with the homer.avi in the Gem tutorials, use two different instances of it running into [pix_texture] and then use [pix_mix] to blend them together... once i can figure out a way to dump to video (haven't gotten into PiDiP/PDP yet) i can show some examples, i've been playing with vnc2swf but i can't figure out how to up the framerate of it, it seems to be more gauged for video tutorials. I'll try to upload some screenshots of some of my Gem patches in action later this week... I have a sequencable sample looper (mainly for breakbeats) that uses a [phasor~] as a lookup, times the number of samples... i routed the [phasor~] to an outlet and made another patch that multiplies it times the number of frames in a video file, allows for some cool audio/video sync between a breakbeat and a video. For a fun time, have someone good with photoshop make a picture and then tweak it out, make a few different versions of it, then play around with [pix_mix]... i don't know if it'll be useful for collage/patchwork-like projects, but it's nice to mix between two or more images, especially if they're all similar. -Ian