Hey all,

I am working on my senior project, which involves music and visuals via Abelton/PD/GEM. I was looking for some advice on things I could do in GEM for the visuals.

The theme I am working on is evolution and am having trouble coming up with visual patches that can really express that idea along with the music I am writing.

I stumbled on Claudius' recursion tutorial that he wrote sometime back and that seems promising but I was just wondering you guys had any other suggestions as far as this goes. Processes, sample patches, visual techniques etc.

Thanks

-Evan_

check out nestor's adaptation of the game of life.
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2007-game-life

Thanks for the suggestion, I think with a little modification this holds some promise.

Any questions: give me a holler. The idea was that by putting the game in an array, you could use it any way you wanted. I've tried many many things with it.

I made a very minor adaptation to make it a noise machine. But after I added variables ($0-array) and resized the array, GEM seemed to stop evolving. How did I kill it?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/conway~.pd