This week I've been studying the fundamentals of max/MSP, and the possibilities are already almost endless. I started by learning the jitter framework, a library for 2D and 3D visuals. I learned to play and manipulate footage in real time as well as 3d objects.
Some of the most important information I've learned so far is that There are two types of numbers in programming. Integers, which are whole numbers, and Floats, which are decimal values between 0 and 1. These numbers are useful in different situations. For example, a binary 1=yes 0=no command would be great for an on/off toggle, but wouldn't work at all for a dry/wet knob. For a knob, a float value between zero and one could be used to get a much wider range of values than the binary 0/1.
