On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 04:01 AM, Pixelcorrection@wmconnect.com wrote:

I wamt to mix two videos.  Does the composite object accept video?  If so how do you format the data?

you may wish to take advantage of the few help files that are available under Gem/help...you could use any of the following: [pix_add], [pix_composite], [pix_takealpha], [pix_mix]...or you could have two layers behind one another and send each a different [blend <, such that one is the inverse of the other...

...which brings me to a broader observation: I think we need to be a little clearer about what an object does in the header & implementation files: there are at least 3 headers that say "Add two images together" and at least 5 that say "Change the overall gain of a pix"! Plus, it'd be good to require a /help patch for any new object: I know I've been lax about that, but promise to do it from now on (really!) ;-)

I have had the experience mixing video with an analog mixer, and wanted to try to use Gem the same way?

is it possible to use the puzzle object with video?  What is the difference between the data types of video and tiff image?

...yes, puzzle works with any input: it just divides the incoming image into user defined sized squares, which can then be shuffled around via bang...as far as difference between video and tiff, tiff is a single image, video (as concerns gem) is a live camera input/stream of images...

the multimage object could sort of do this, but not so good for live streams+labour intensive.

...don't use multimage much myself, I like moving images alot right now!

l8r, jamie