212MC Term1 2007

From Interactivity

This is a series of lectures given at Coventry University's School of Arts and Design, Media Production course 212MC: Interactive Media for Term 1, Fall 2007.

NOTE (updated): I am using Coventry's CUOnline system for some of the information. Please check here FIRST. This is now a primary resource.

Lectures and Workshops Notes

1. Week 1 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week1 workshop: intro to Max and Jitter programming.
     
2. Week 2 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week 2 workshop  : part 2, intro to Max and Jitter programming.
     
3. Week 3 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week 3 workshop  : intro to sound in Max/MSP
     
4. Week 4 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week 4 workshop  : More movie playing, getting useful messages out of jit.qt.movie and doing useful things with them, cross-fading between 2 and 3 movies.
     
5. Week 5 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week 5 workshop
6. Week 6 was group presentations and a group feedback session.
7. Week 7 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week 7 workshop (1) : Part 1, with simple 3d video screens, mixing colors in 3d, some basic beat detection examples.
   • patches for week 7 workshop(2)  : Part 2, with more 3d video screens, and some bonus patches showing how to create buttons using [split] and the jit.window object detecting mouse coordinates.
8. Week 8 Lecture Notes
   • extra patches for week 8 workshop
9. Week 9 Lecture Notes
   • patches for week 9 workshop

Other Stuff

I added a page with detailed information about Using Nintendo Wiiremotes in Max/MSP/Jitter, for both Windows and OS X.

Here is a patch demonstrating simple "ghost" effects for live camera input in jitter (it can eb altered to use movies): Media:Ghost-camera.zip