How do you pass data between objects in Max? If the data is a simple number or a symbol then the answer is easy. What happens when you are trying to pass around audio vectors, dictionaries, images, or some other … Continue reading
In the series Custom Data-Types in Max there is frequent reference to Jamoma. Jamoma is “A Platform for Interactive Art-based Research and Performance”. Sounds great, right? But what does it mean by “A Platform”? How is it structured? What are … Continue reading
When people design systems in Max that are composed of multiple objects that share data, they have a problem: how do you share the data between objects? The coll object, for example, can share its data among multiple coll objects … Continue reading
In this series I am offering a few answers to the question “what’s the best way to have multiple max objects refering to a custom data structure?” Another variation on that question is ”I want to define a class that will … Continue reading
The Max API makes it easy to pass a handful of standard data types in Max: ints, floats, symbols, lists of the aforementioned. But what happens when you want to pass a frog from one object to the next? A … Continue reading