Hallo, nosehair911@bellsouth.net hat gesagt: // nosehair911@bellsouth.net wrote:
I'm just starting out in PD but 99.9% of the time I can break something down and figure out how it works or find something online, but can someone explain to me how to use two gemheads to render a pattern with just on geo. I understand the textfile object and the text file part what I down get is why it works.
The double gemhead trick is based on "forced rendering". If you look at the gemhead help file, you will see, that banging a gemhead will make it render just one frame.
In the double-gemhead configuration, the upper gemhead basically ist just a metro driving the rendering of the lower gemhead with bangs. (But you cannot use a normal metro here, as the bangs have to be timed exactly in sync with the gemwin's frame rate.)
The lower gemhead as default is switched off (with a loadbang -> 0), so that it is not rendering, unless it receives a bang.
The with some simple [t b a] voodoo you can make many forced renderings of the same geo but with different transformations applied to each. See attached example patch for this in action.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__