Thanks, Ge. I'm still trying to evaluate how I might get a (possible) new project completed with the minimum fuss, and of course ChucK came to mind. I had thought of a MIDI head tracker but so far I haven't been able to discover one, or even to discover that one exists. I would appreciate any tips from anyone about MIDI head trackers. FWIW, the page at http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2005/chuck.html lists the date as May 25th, 2004. Also FWIW, my name is Jerry B a u c k, not Lance. Lance Boyle is a joke name that I used to get the free e-mail account from cwazy.co.uk that I use for mail lists and to keep my "Google space" from being polluted with trivial occurrences of my name 8^). I have a little web site at www.transaural.com that is audio (and business) related. Jerry On Jan 16, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Ge Wang wrote:
Hi Lance,
Welcome to the list!
At the moment, ChucK does not have enough implementation to adequately do what you ask - we are missing mouse input, as "explained" in this earlier post:
https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/chuck/2004-September/ 000074.html
The new version coming out (which has been reschreduled for this or next month) should contain several ways to correctly handle real-time input.
If the headtracker can output MIDI (if you have one of them commercials ones that emulate the mouse, then probably not?), that's one workaround for devices to talk with ChucK. Ajay Kapur once built a head-tracker using accelerometers, as part of his E-Sitar. He has since ported the project to ChucK, perhaps he has some example code. Ajay, are you around?
On the subject of ChucK and real-time input devices, it is a long-standing goal to integrate (with earnest design) input with the timing mechanism and concurrency in ChucK. Much of it has been worked out in the new release, and we (Perry, Ananya, Ajay, and I) will be giving a workshop on programming / mapping controllers with ChucK at NIME 2005:
http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2005/chuck.html
We still need to write more code for several parts of it (OSC support, for example) - but support for everything there and more should be released long before May.
Best, Ge!
On Jan 16, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Lance Boyle wrote:
Hi. First post to this list. Following up on mention of ChucK a few days ago on music-dsp.
Using ChuckK, how would one access a headtracker or mouse from either a serial port (via Keyspan serial-USB adapter) or USB using OS X?
Jerry
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