Need some help and guidance regarding on PureData and Flash

Reply to Need some help and guidance regarding on PureData and Flash on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:03:07 GMT

Full Moon — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:03:07 GMT

Hi there,
I am currently talking a New Media class...and we are learning Arduino and PD....
Currently, I am trying to build this project that interact Adobe Flash, Arduino, and Pure Data.

Similar to this:

The thing is that we only learn PureData for only 4 days so I need some major help LOL

Anyway..I am going to have a circuit with 3-5 photoresistor
each photoresistor is controlling different movement in flash

Photoresistor 1: a picture of a butterfly moving left
Photoresistor2: a picture of a flower falling from left to right
And soo on….

I used the "search" function of the forums and found some links…I come across this
http://www.benchun.net/flosc/

I am still a abit confuse on how to start things and would love to have some pointers, tutorials or a overview on how to launch this project.

Really appreciated,
Full Moon

Reply to Need some help and guidance regarding on PureData and Flash on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:09:40 GMT

arif — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:09:40 GMT

hi full moon

I won't be able to help you on the flosc/flash side of things, but OSC in pd is s00per simple.

go to help > browser > manual > networking > OSC.pd

Reply to Need some help and guidance regarding on PureData and Flash on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:44:45 GMT

Full Moon — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:44:45 GMT

thanks arif for the respond.....but i did try reading the help manual and other comment....pure data is like another language to me in general but i talked to my professor about changing it to a regular mov file....

but thanks for the comment....it helped alot

Reply to Need some help and guidance regarding on PureData and Flash on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:56:06 GMT

guido — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:56:06 GMT

In my opinion you could just skip the Flash part and work directly with Pd and Arduino.

First of all you should install Pduino, a library for Pd that helps you to send and recieve data from Arduino. Everything you need can be found here: http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html

Now it's all about Pd patching. Each single photoresistor will give you a normalized value between 0 and 1. Probably you'll need Gem to perform the transformations you ask for.

It's actually easier than it seems. Feel free to ask if you need further informations

Reply to Need some help and guidance regarding on PureData and Flash on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:04:06 GMT

hdez — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:04:06 GMT

if you absolutely have to use Flash, investigate [flashserver]

These are Max/MSP tutorials, but the info translates to Pd perfectly
Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3: