okay, intermediate/advanced GEM tutorial wanted... But for the purpose of discussion: I want the gem window to record the movement of an object, so that if i move (say) a sphere around the window over a period of time, what you see is the trail it has left behind.

I believe buffer will help me here, but there is nothing on [buffer 1( or 2(

Ideally i want the trail to fade out after a period of time, but I believe that would perhaps involve some other type of processing. I humbly request your ideas, please:

i think you need to make a recursive feedback loop.

there was a good tutorial on that posted by claude a while back.

http://www.blurty.com/users/claudiusmaximus/day/2007/07/18#407

!! I'd seen that a while ago, never thought it'd come in handy!

Thought it was just a way of exploring geometry.

Tomorrow (after sleep, here it is 4am) I shall crack on with it and let you know how I get along. I think I'm onto something nice.

Can Anyone explain why I couldn't get this one to produce anything other than one circle...

(it's supposed to be a recursive branch of circles)

or any of the examples afterwards.

despite the fact that all objects are recognised

did you increase the number box labeled max-depth? I think that worked for me.

yep

did you increase it too much so as to bottleneck and freeze pd?

nope... well, maybe, before I opened the gemwin or something. I'll try it again see if it works next time. but it's not really high priority...

I found out that what I needed was [buffer 1( sent to a gemwin with a frame rate as creation argument (that way it captures the movement) since I wanted movement for 30 mins, and so using the recursive method would seem to me to be faaaaaar to cpu heavy. I'm working on something nice though, i'll post it later when it's working as intended