hi list,

i'm starting up a new project involving internet collaboration on live performances of music and video. i have a concept in mind that might work with this, and i'd like to hear if people who know more about these sorts of things think it might be feasible and if i should spend time learning enough to be able to pull it off.

the project i'm imagining would work with a patch that each end of the collaboration had an identical copy of (as well as any samples or anything). no when you are performing with the patch, a change you make to a variable will be changed at your end, and also sent (via osc or something) to the other end and change the same variable there. if effect this would be two people in remote locations controlling the same interface at the same time.

now, the idea i've been toying with involves how to make it more apparent what your cohort on the other end is doing. i would want to make it so that whenever he altered a value, the slider/checkbox/etc on your end would not only change to his value, but also change to a certain color (or maybe a canvas object behind the control object would change color) and then slowly fade back to the normal color over time. i imagine this to be a little like the "track changes" feature on your favorite word processor, but with the added bonus that you could get an idea of the timeline of his fiddlings as well.

so to people with experience in the graphical programming behind Pd: is this something that might be feasible? should i spend time learning the necessary background to make it happen, or is it something that just can't be done with the way things are now and i shouldn't even waste my time? thanks for any advice you can give me, and sorry for the length.

matt