Hello there,

Well as it happens my fulltime job is R&D dealing with the AccessGrid system. I experienced with tcl/tk, but just a bigginer with C. Anyhow I've looked into VIC (the video tool accessgrid uses) which is a quite eclectic mix of many languages. Including, tcl/tk, otcl, tclcl and C++ (In the case of AG proper they also threw in Java) all these interfaces talk to one and other to actually do anything, The real code is C++ for the video. I've not figured out how the video is embeded into the tcl/tk interface (perhaps somewhere between otcl and tclcl) I do use gem over AG often though, by sending the X11 display over accessgrid as illustrated in the following images. The large video pane on the right is the compressed accessgrid version of the gem render.

http://www.ekran.org/ben/research/GEMoverAG2.jpg http://www.ekran.org/ben/research/hypertext_ag1.jpg http://www.ekran.org/ben/research/hypertext_ag2.jpg

My research lab is on AG 24-7 you can see us at "Ryerson University" usually sitting in the "test room" Occationally I can be seen as "B. Bogart"

Ben

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, shreeswifty wrote:

Hi we have this wonderful tool at http://www.digitalworlds.ufl.edu called the access grid. It has been used for some very neat things and i noticed when it was up an communicating to other nodes on the planet that it uses tcl/tk for its video display. Surely we can create an external for this in pd right? something along the lines of shoutcast maybe? maybe some framestein and GEM for "effecting" the grid displays?

Pat Pagano, Director South East Just Intonation Society http://www.screwmusicforever.com/SHREESWIFT/

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