Learning Max MSP

Yay, I get to learn Max MSP in my IAT 320 class. Visualizing the programming makes it easier than typing lines of text, though I still get confused because I am not used to the program. The first in-class assignment we did was to make a ball that bounces back and forth the little window and change speed based on the input of the user.

Here is a screenshot of my work.

The left window is used to capture the user by camera, and the feedback is presented in the right window, where we can see the ball move.



The bottom left corner of the left window is shown in the next screenshot, where the program takes the float number representing the movement and converts is so the "metro" function in the right window can use the number to change the speed of the ball's movement. This took much figuring out, because I was stuck on how I would convert the number. With the help of the TA the function worked out fine in the end.


Hopefully I will start to get more used to Max Msp later on in the course. It is an interesting program.