I like Achims State machine, here's another approach I made years ago before my JS was useful.

I've done this sort of thing where I have two registers and interpolate between them. The registers are the two most recent items in a queue, so a new item in pushes the registers if that makes sense. Can't find a composition for that method.

Also I did it for a structure of 3D attitudes/orientations of an object. I have a comp for this. In this case the queue just track random index values, again causing the index at the registers to shift along each time a new one comes in.

It's a juggling act that uses a pulsed timer (LFO sawtooth-ramp-up) to drive interpolation patches and the queue; here is a demo composition I dug out (minus the interesting bit that morphs a cube into a sphere and back).

Attachment: Demo transitions between atitudes with a spinning cube.qtz
Description: application/quartzcomposer

Attachment: Rotational Positions.plist
Description: Binary data


NB The rotation position.plist is an XML file that needs to be in the same folder as the comp to load.

Best
Alastair
 
On 17/06/2011, at 5:09 PM, Rick Mann wrote:

I've been doing these on-screen graphics for a web channel that covers space launches. We show a couple of different countdown clocks, as well as a block of ascent parameters.

But for the last nine minutes of a shuttle launch, there's not much to show. I have a couple dozen events that occur at various times during the count. I want to display each one as it occurs. An event is just a text string describing the event ("APU Start," "Steering Test," etc.).

My custom patch can either output each string on a output port, or output an array of structures that has the string and the associated time. The former is easier for me.

How can I crossfade from the last event string to the next, especially when they come in rapid succession (perhaps more quickly than the crossfade duration)?

I was doing a similar cross fade between a set of images, and it was a real pain to build the structure for it.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Rick

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