18 May
2008
18 May
'08
1:19 a.m.
hi
i was just sorting out some of the vastness of junk that accumulates on my
system and i ran across these knob animations. i made them a while
ago but never did anything with them.
i called it a dot knob because rather than displaying some sort of
radial meter (in addition to the position indicator), the value is
indicated by the intensity of a dot in the center.
there are two variations, the first uses colour intensity, the second
spectral intensity.
it's very small, which can be useful. it also gives a very good instant
impression of the overall state of the controls. i'm not entirely convinced
that it's practical to use though.
still, you can find them here:
http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/
i setup phasex to use them and shot down some screens:
http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/glow-dot-knob.png
http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/spectral-dot-knob.png
i haven't got any idea what kind of licence is appropriate for
3d source files or the resultant animations, at least not with
regard to how they interact with software licences, so they are
public domain.
cheers,
pete.
20 Jun
20 Jun
10 p.m.
pete shorthose wrote:
hi
i was just sorting out some of the vastness of junk that accumulates on my
system and i ran across these knob animations. i made them a while
ago but never did anything with them.
[snip]
Hi Pete,
Hey, those are really nice ! I'd like to add them to my own build of
Phasex, how would I go about it ?
Best,
dp
21 Jun
21 Jun
11:05 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:00:38 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
pete shorthose wrote:
Hey Dave. if your build isn't much different to 0.11.1 then something
like this should suffice:
wget http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/spectral-dot-knob_100_frames_31x31…
sudo cp spectral-dot-knob_100_frames_31x31.png /usr/local/share/phasex/pixmaps/knob.png
using which version you prefer and your phasex installation prefix.
then, re/start phasex :)
it determines the dimensions and number of frames from the image,
with the proviso that the frames are square and concatenated from
left to right.
this mean you can use blender to rerender the sequence in any
(reasonable) size and just copy them over the installed files to
use them. same goes for any other similarly structured animations.
at the time, i intended to submit another patch to add recoloring
and a file chooser for the animations but then i intend to do an
awful lot of things these days and subsequently don't.
i'm not sure that Will Weston (phasex author) is currently available
to approve patches anyway.
if you are not au fait with blender and want some specific changes
to the animations, just give me a shout and i'll see if i can oblige
at all.
hope that helps.
cheers,
pete.
hi
i was just sorting out some of the vastness of junk that accumulates on my
system and i ran across these knob animations. i made them a while
ago but never did anything with them.
[snip]
Hi Pete,
Hey, those are really nice ! I'd like to add them to my own build of
Phasex, how would I go about it ? 
12:25 p.m.
pete shorthose wrote:
Hey Dave. if your build isn't much different to
0.11.1 then something
like this should suffice:
wget http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/spectral-dot-knob_100_frames_31x31…
sudo cp spectral-dot-knob_100_frames_31x31.png /usr/local/share/phasex/pixmaps/knob.png
using which version you prefer and your phasex installation prefix.
then, re/start phasex :)
Worked perfectly, thanks Pete !
Now to do something about that background in Phasex...
at the time, i intended to submit another patch to add
recoloring
and a file chooser for the animations but then i intend to do an
awful lot of things these days and subsequently don't.
i'm not sure that Will Weston (phasex author) is currently available
to approve patches anyway.
I've never heard from him. I wrote an article about Phasex, never heard
a thing from him. He seems to have dropped off the LA* lists. Too bad, I
like that synth.
if you are not au fait with blender and want some
specific changes
to the animations, just give me a shout and i'll see if i can oblige
at all.
Thanks, I appreciate that offer. I'm not up on Blender at all, though
it's on my ToDo list of things to get into. I'm working with some other
A/V apps, sooner or later I have to consider Blender and its capabilities.
Best regards,
dp
22 Jun
22 Jun
10:12 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:25:10 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
pete shorthose wrote:
background?
i should also remind everyone that phasex benefits from backing store. if you
enable that in your xorg.conf, you will see fewer redraws when moving windows
around etc. (with that many knobs and widgets, it does make a difference,
at least on older systems like my p4 2GHz laptop)
cheers,
pete.
Hey Dave. if your build isn't much different
to 0.11.1 then something
like this should suffice:
wget http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/spectral-dot-knob_100_frames_31x31…
sudo cp spectral-dot-knob_100_frames_31x31.png /usr/local/share/phasex/pixmaps/knob.png
using which version you prefer and your phasex installation prefix.
then, re/start phasex :)
Worked perfectly, thanks Pete !
Now to do something about that background in Phasex...
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