<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6408">What I mean is that both [line~] and [vline~] receive their messages on block boundaries.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6443">But unlike [line~], [vline~] can start/end ramps and jump to the values you give it without being</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6939" dir="ltr">limited by block boundaries.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6938" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_10264" dir="ltr">Another example with my day-long block sizes:<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6937" dir="ltr">At noon on Monday you send a bang to [metro 150]--[tgl]--[vline~]. You'll have</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_7308">to wait until noon Tuesday to hear the result, but you _will_ hear that same pattern of ones and</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_7676" dir="ltr">zeros spaced 150ms apart that you were sending on Monday, even though the block size lasts a</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_8322" dir="ltr">day. That's the strength of [vline~].<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6522"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6523">On the other hand, the [line~] object would just take the last [tgl] value it received on Monday</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_8500" dir="ltr">(before it begins computing Tuesday's block), and it would just repeat that value the entire day of Tuesday. If you had sent it a ramp time, you would get your ramp Tuesday, but it would necessarily</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_8501" dir="ltr">stretch across the entire day of Tuesday because that is the block size.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_8502" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_8503" dir="ltr">Essentially-- you can't send a message that would interrupt the [vline~] object's perform routine</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_8786" dir="ltr">and feed it new values. But because block sizes are usually small, I can't think of a</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_9018" dir="ltr">situation where you'd need to do that.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_9017" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_9016" dir="ltr">It occurs to me I could be wrong about any or all of this. If so I'm certain Matt or Miller can set</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_10688" dir="ltr">me straight.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_10689" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_10693" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_9647" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_9646" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_9414" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443277334539_6410"><span></span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, September 26, 2015 10:24 AM, i go bananas <hard.off@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9535316288"><div>In that case, maybe an even simpler question: <div><br clear="none"></div><div>What is the difference between sending a [1, 0 50( message to vline as opposed to line ? </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Why does line exhibit jitter, if both only trigger on block boundaries? </div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>