Hello, recent and today's update in leap motion drivers leads us to some thinking in order to help Gego and other middleware to get data into Isadora (although an izzy actor in c would be the ideal thing because software like geco is using 27 % of an intel 2.7 ghz i7 with 16gb of ram under Maverick.) Now. Geek osc version is just great we can write our own tags! But the new version of leap motion driver is really stunning for a few reasons. 1) Leapmotion visualizer seems to overcome somehow crossing hands. If you switch hands horizontally your right hand is now left of screen but it is the right hand. And same for the left of course. 2) Turning a hand bottom up doesn't mixes fingers!!!! If you out right hand hand palm up now the thumb is in the right place. 3) And even better, It seems to be able to recognize what hand is in the field even if the hand is bottom up!!!!! Wow! Hands right thumb is still right thumb on screen even if right hand enters on the left end of the sensor's field of vision with palm up!!!!!!! I can see this because if I do this geco's right hand valus start to trigger. Geco has a clever way to to this called dexterity detection. And it is good it stays that way for precision. But now everything seems right just out of leap driver. In my opinion this means that leap people ttought the driver to recognize hands geometry in order to detect which it is and if it is bottom up or normal palm down. As for geco I would suggest an option that ignores if fingers are open or closed. It would be just a “palm orientation” feature because otherwise you always have to be with spread fingers and cannotrelax or the contrary. Now, this can be avoided in geco addressing open and closed fingers to the same osc tags or midi channel and controller and then “linking the 2 modes (spread and closed) with the linking chain in geco. But it is quite a bit of work… Now I’m dreaming…. And if geco could also receive midi or osc and have different preset in a same document. We could hand or sensor trigger diferent presets for different moments or funcions of the installation….. Maybe version 2? Best

Thanks @lpipoz 🙂

As always, if you're on Mac OS use the applet and send me the crash reports so I can analyze. For Windows users of the pre-release version, the crash reports are transmitted to me automatically. Make sure to include your email address an a description of the problem when sending on Windows.

The OSC crashing issue likely has nothing to do with the vblank-disable thing. They are really not related. Due to Troika Ranch's recent gig in Moscow and the even more recent Berlin workshop, I haven't been examining these crash reports. But will start looking them over them this week and get back to you as soon as I can. Best Wishes, Mark

Any plans for 2015? Is this going to be continued?

Hello! @Fred is there any new version of FRED_KinectV2_Syphon or a way to turn off the image output on the app?

Wondering if we can kill the image so that the RAM does not slows down by having that image processing on the background.

Any ideas?  Thanks! best

Re: [KinectV2 OSX](/topic/2125/kinectv2-osx)

@bonemap, @dbini, I have the go ahead for this little mobile projection project.  I'll do a separate post on this too, but thought I would add the information here too.  Again, I have no idea how this will end up, but I think it'll be fun to experiment!  I'll be strapping some projectors to my truck, projecting onto apartments, houses, storefronts and lawns of various Cincinnati neighborhoods; bringing projection art to the people, as it were.  Since we'll be moving, we can't really do any sort of mapping, and the content should be pretty atmospheric and textural, given we'll be projecting onto a multitude of surfaces.  But thematically, it should focus on our current separation, and what still connects us, either as a city or globally.  There will be a small stipend for this, but I can't give a concrete amount at the moment; basically whatever is left of the funding after equipment expenses will be divided up between collaborators.  Just let me know if you'd be down to play, and we'll work out the specifics.  Thanks!

Well, I did my install on 10.6.8 -- so I don't know about 10.8, and unfortunately I've got more important "fish to fry" at the moment. I refer everyone to my original post, where I said:

1) If it doesn't work, **you won't complain at all** ** **

Dear @Old_Dog

Please don't post the same issue several times. You will also get an answer if you post it once and if it is a new issue please create a new topic.

Thank you.

Best Michel

@mark

I've experienced the black flicker when using Electron Capture App (https://github.com/steveseguin...) to send a video stream from OBS.Ninja into Isadora. Electron is a frameless, streamlined browser window that would be perfect twinned with the Screen Capture actor were it not for the black flicker issue.

Here's to an extra laser-etched brain Mark!  With heartfelt THANKS for all the ingenuity and dedication you've poured into Isadora.  Can't imagine my art practice without it! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Carole

I was too quick…

Dear All,

In case you didn't notice, Send PJLink v0.9.6 is on the plugins page. It fixes the problem for Windows users found above.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Anyone else had issues with burn-in on the GPU (both the internal display and secondary)? I know this was an issue at the beginning, but thought it was fixed with some updates... guess I have a lemon?

Aso tearing when working in Izzy as well as AE? 

Hi Mark, Saw the saving feature, thats good to have. Will keep you updated. All the best, Alex

just saw this

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1707?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

@Skulpture No probs d00d - there's some explanatory notes o'er in yonder thread - http://troikatronix.com/community/#/discussion/2347/motion-tracking-through-isadora - like I said over there - all WIP, none anywhere near finished. More just demos of what we can do thru Processing.

Here we are. 2e4051-nxt.pd.zip

Colour Theory Animation

Dear Hugh,

Well then, we're very close. FreeFrame plugins are supposed to return a code that says FF_UNSUPPORTED when you ask it if it has a feature and that feature is unsupported. Your problem plugins are returning FF_FAIL, which, by the book is the wrong response. I guess I should simply be looking for FF_SUPPORTED, which is what I'm going to do. So I think you'll have everything working in the next version. Best Wishes, Mark

@mark

Many thanks for ther expanded and well rounded guide to the SRT actor.

It makes a lot of sense. From the start, I had my SRT file(s) in a different folder due to jumping around doing numerous items. I did not think this would be part of the issue but I should have known better.

To confirm, via your guide above, I can get the SRT actor to work correctly and the subtitles appear in my variety of test movies. 

I have missed the boat for this particular occasion. The request was on Sunday for a presentation/opening on Monday am. I will happily keep this guide in my bag of Isadora's tips and tricks.

Many thanks for the effort and time put in to explain and clarify how best to use this actor. As usual, it is much appreciated and I am grateful for the back up and support these forums always offer.

Eamon