[PD] agenda for upcoming book sprint?[GEM sprint]

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Fri Mar 27 05:56:30 CET 2009


that's where the joke is,
that floss manuals cover
software that should also run on windows

yes, you've always been a joker man,
you know that


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sevy

Derek Holzer wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As the "facilitator" of this project, I will post a list of sprint
> targets quite soon.
>
> GEM section is definitely on my list, however I do want to keep to
> things which are both included in PD-Extended and are cross platform.
> For now, this excludes PDP and Gridflow. Maybe if someone wanted to make
> a separate section which includes installation/configuration info
> (following the template in the Install chapters of the existing Pd FLOSS
> Manual), then a section on one of these might be relevant. But as they
> are both essentially Linux only, by virtue of either being uncompilable
> or nearly unusable on other platforms, I'd rather keep focus someplace 
> else.
>
> As for GEM, I'd like to see some stuff on the following (in order of
> priority):
>
> 1) Basic VJ mixer (2 x
> [gemhead]-[pix_film]-[alpha]-[colorRGB]-[pix_texture]-[rectangle] with
> an alpha-crossfader)(+ platform specific codec info)
> 2) Live camera input (same as VJ mixer but with [pix_video], with
> platform specific info on USB/firewire inputs--what works & what doesn't)
> 3) VJ effects (using the various pix objects)
> 4) Basic 3D (that actually does something interesting, rather than just
> show a sphere or a cube)
> 5) Basic movement tracking w/ [pix_blob]
> 6) GEM/video optimization/troubleshooting tips (see Troubleshooting
> section of existing Pd FLOSS Manual)(Chris Clepper, are you in the 
> house?)
>
> I have some tutorial patches which could be used as the basis for most
> of this, let me know if you are interested.
>
> Full target list coming soon, I'll make sure to include this GEM section.
>
> best,
> Derek
>
> marius schebella wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I hope I am not jumping the gun or stepping on anyone's toes. I just 
>>> wanted to open up the discussion about what people are planning on 
>>> working on during the upcoming book sprint. Currently, I am pretty 
>>> open to topics, but I was thinking that Gem/PDP/Gridflow could 
>>> really use a section. There are lots of examples for them, but they 
>>> lack a good intro to the concepts.
>>
>> I am in for a gem sprint.
>> marius.
>
>
>





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