Hi,

I need to create some generative, algorithmic mathematical patterns for backgrounds for a web site - you know the kind - and I'm looking at Processing and obviously GEM for this kind of thing. I don't really know too much about the graphical side of Pd, but I can't seem to find that much in the realm of 2d stuff, but there's plenty of 3d. Is its main focus on real time manipulation?

Is GEM suited to this kind of thing? or would I be better off with Processing and saving off renders. I know Pd's architecture pretty well, so I'd hit the ground strolling nicely, whereas with Processing I'd have to do the baby steps thing to produce anything decent...

cheers

i dont think there is a way to use a gem-patch in a webbrowser. ..id be delighted if i was wrong on this...

As far as I know there isn't any way to embed a GEM window in a web browser. You could possibly stream it as video, but this isn't really fitting for a website background.

Another option is to have GEM create still images and use javascript (or another language) to animate the background from this dynamically generated image pool.

erm...sorry for confusion I guess I didnt word that too well I didn't mean for embedding GEM into web pages, just generating static, still images so that I could use them in other stuff, like a web page for instance. I've kind of answered my own question a bit, but I need to investigate more about recursion and some of the different objects.

cheers