The idea is to control a physical matrix of lamps in a theater (we experimented in PACT-Zollverein Essen with 36 PCs - 6 rows of 6 lamps) with a system of two matrixes (a big one with fixed position and a small moving one) in PureData.
The goal is to be able to dynamically control the movement of a small matrix within the main matrix and to control the appearance of both matrixes in real time.
two examples:
- the big matrix is 6 by 6 PCs at full and small matrix is 3 by 3 PCs (one central PC at 0 surrounded by 8 PCs at 50%)
- the big matrix is 6 by 6 PCs at 0 and small matrix is 3 by 3 PCs (one central PC at full surrounded by 8 PCs at 50%)
Example 1 amounts to a moving shadow on a lit stage.
Example 2 amounts to a moving spot on a dark stage.
Here is the PureData patch to download: matrix_in_matrix.pd
Here are the abstractions to put in your abstractions folder in order to make it work (expand the zip, copy the contents of the folder to your local abstractions folder). abstractions19_07_09.zip
to be continued 