[PD] GEM Motion Capture

[Dan Wilcox]

To be fair, people work on what is important to them, so no need to flame.
I'd suggest that a university program that *requires* PD should at least be
willing to fund/support it's development instead of using it as a cheap
alternative to Max and then *hoping* that "open source" will do that for
them.

Anyway, I may have scared up some funding to support me for a week to do
this in the summer. I'll chime back in when I know more details

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:23 PM, me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> disclaimer: i love linux and probably are not un-biased.
>
> Agreed!
>
> But unfortunately, here, students of Transmedia (Syracuse U) are required
> to buy a Mac freshmen year and are taught on osx systems/programs
> throughout their 4 undergraduate years. we (pd community) keeps loosing
> them to max/msp/jitter people/teachers here which is tragic in my opinion
> and gets me quite heated....
>
> It is pertinent to note I have 60+ art/design/media students this semester
> all being introduced to Pd in some capacity and when it starts crashing and
> they lose their work they get quite turned off, not just with Pd but with
> programming as a artist/art student in general.....
>
> I am sure the knowledge here in this community and on this list can pull
> together and help rectify the situation....
>
> johannes, dan, antoine and others have done awesome with Gem .... its
> really an amazing lib and if i could take a semester off and learn how to
> code better I would! maybe there are students interested in helping out?
> others that want to learn coding on OSX?
>
> my 2 cents on pd's osx future:
>
> fuck pd-extended (hans is dead god rest his pd soul)
> fuck pd-l20rk (is there any chance of an OSX 64 bit build with native Gem
> plugs? prob not....)
>
> CORE PD + GEM .... that is all that is necessary at the moment. Almost
> everything else can be abstractions....
>
>
> it seems like a lot of time is wasted on bullshit curved elbowed cables
> and the like....
>
>
> m
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> From: "IOhannes m zmölnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>>> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
>>> Cc:
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:19:23 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: [PD] GEM Motion Capture
>>> On 03/11/2015 08:45 PM, Joshua Curley wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I also am using the latest updated from Apple: Yosemite
>>>
>>> most likely this is the problem.
>>> Gem still uses QuickTime for accessing the video devices on OSX, and
>>> afaik, yosemite has finally abandoned QT even on i386.
>>>
>>
>> 32 bit is pretty much done on OS X anyway.
>>
>>
>>> so i think there are a number of possibilities:
>>>
>>> - downgrade to some older version of OSX
>>>
>>
>> No that easy, unless you have an older backup.
>>
>>
>>> - convince (bribe, intimidate,...) someone with OSX knowledge and
>>> reasonable ObjC/C++ knowledge to write an AVFoundation plugin for Gem
>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>>> - upgrade to an operating system that does not deprecate another core
>>> component of their OS whenever they make a new release¹.
>>>
>>
>> Quicktime has been deprecated since 10.7. We had plenty of warning.
>>
>>
>>> ¹ disclaimer: i love linux and probably are not un-biased.
>>>
>>
>> Yes :D
>>
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