Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-12 Thread Christopher Meng
Hi all, Thanks for the great info. [pix_mean_color] is awesome! I was looking for something like this for a patch. My patch is very similar to the ones in this thread, but I'm looking to have multiple synths generating sound using different areas of the movie or picture. I'd REALLY love if I c

Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-12 Thread Antonio Roberts
Hi Alan and Claude, Thanks for your insights. I now understand that there is no one "true" way to convert colour to sound and that there will always be a "tuning bias", similar to what I already did in my Pixel Player software. Thanks for the heads up about the [pix_mean_color] object, I think I

Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-09 Thread Alan Brooker
Greetings Ant! Perhaps try looking at [pix_mean_color] object? Attached is a patch that I've cleaned up- it just extracts RGA values from loaded video then unpacks them for 3 [osc~] objects-crude but could be starting point I hope ...best! Al On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Antonio Roberts wr

Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-09 Thread tim vets
2015-04-09 17:58 GMT+02:00 Claude Heiland-Allen : > On 07/04/15 17:35, tim vets wrote: > >> I get "./recog~: can't load library" >> (and pd seems to go into a "watchdog: signaling pd..." loop as soon as I >> create the Gem window, don't know if that's related). >> I can't find 'recog~' anywhere o

Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-09 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
On 07/04/15 17:35, tim vets wrote: I get "./recog~: can't load library" (and pd seems to go into a "watchdog: signaling pd..." loop as soon as I create the Gem window, don't know if that's related). I can't find 'recog~' anywhere on my system. I suspect a problem with your Gem rather than my s

Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-07 Thread tim vets
Hi Claude, Interesting stuff! I triend to run your patch, but I get "./recog~: can't load library" (and pd seems to go into a "watchdog: signaling pd..." loop as soon as I create the Gem window, don't know if that's related). I can't find 'recog~' anywhere on my system. hint welcome. thanks, Tim

Re: [PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-07 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Hi Antonio, On 05/04/15 15:51, Antonio Roberts wrote: I've been studying the work of Neil Harbisson for awhile and I'm looking to try and replicate in part the functionality of his eyeborg using Pure Data. I have already built a simple patch to convert pixels to sound but now I want to expand on

[PD] Converting colours to sound

2015-04-07 Thread Antonio Roberts
I've been studying the work of Neil Harbisson for awhile and I'm looking to try and replicate in part the functionality of his eyeborg using Pure Data. I have already built a simple patch to convert pixels to sound but now I want to expand on it. Here's my initial research: http://www.hellocatfood.