Momentous!!!
OK, so, about 3 years ago, I took this class at ITP on Max/MSP ( Jitter did not yet exist; if it had, I surely would have tried harder). Anyhow, I recently made a purchase of this fantastic package, and have been wading through the tutorials (could this be a move from Director to Max for nathaniel? Stay tuned!…). At some point in the class a few years ago, I hit a wall. Today, when I hit that same wall, I remembered it: the funbuff object. What is this, you ask? Well, it does many things, but mostly, it just confused me. I stared, I read the tutorial, I read the reference… Sigh. You know what? It’s just a bloody index! It’s like a property list, or a graph that has a y value for every corresponding x. That’s it. The confusing thing was all the ways you can access that data. (And, I’m sure I’ll be thankful for it when the day comes that I need it, but for right now, I’m happy to ignore it and just understand the simplicity of this object).
So, what does this mean? It means that I am now beyond tutorial number 27 for Max, which left me hanging all those years ago! I think it’s time for a beer, don’t you?
