I am new to PD so this may be a simple question. Is there a patch or a way to have two gemobjects attached to sound generators/modifiers interact with each other in reference to their proximity from each other? In simple terms. Basically have 1 gemobject be attached to a loadbang and a 2nd gemobject be attached to a metro and as gemobject1 gets a certain distance from gemobject2 the loadbangs outlet attaches to the metros inlet. I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure this out in PD. I think it might have something to do with pmpd but I cant figure it out. Something similar to the reactable. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Alain

Download pd-extended ( http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html ) and check out the pmpd examples (in the 'examples' section of the help browser).

I cant find what you mean. I see that gemobjects can have phisical interactions with each other like gravity, mass link ect..but I cant seem to find how to translate their interactions in the way I need. For example I have 1circle that it attached to an osc~. A 2circle attached to a frequency modulation patch. A 3circle attached to another osc~ with a different frequency/tone. What I want is that as 2circle(frequency modulation) gets near 1circle(osc~) the frequency modulation patch interacts with 1circle's osc~ and as it moves away from 1circle and towards 3circle(osc~2), the frequency modulation stops interacting with 1circle and starts interacting with 3circle. If there is a particular example or set of examples in the pmpd documentation that could help me achieve this can you point them out and/or attach them here.
Sorry for the long explanation and thanks for answering my question so fast.
Alain

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'interacting' - if you just want to turn a control or audio flow on or off based on the proximity of one object to another, you won't need pmpd - just calculate the distance between your two circles and compare it to a radius which determines whether to turn the signal flow on or off.

I've attached a file that does something like that.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/circle_prox.pd

Thanks for your help and for schooling me on simple 9th grade algebra. I got it working with 3 objects my dilema now is trying to fire out how to do this withmore than four object. I'll post my test patch if someone is interested and ask more questions if I run into problems.

Thanks,
Alain

@ding said:

Thanks for your help and for schooling me on simple 9th grade algebra. I got it working with 3 objects my dilema now is trying to fire out how to do this withmore than four object. I'll post my test patch if someone is interested and ask more questions if I run into problems.

Thanks,
Alain

If you get anywhere with this, and have patch I could see I would love to take a look. Are you working with reactivision? I may starting a project similar to the reactable too and would love to see what you're doing.

I would also be interested in sharing. I want to make a easy pd->reactable setup, so anyone can make one with whatever patches they want (the reactable stuff doesn't give any examples of actually producing sound or visuals.)

I am only working out a few ideas now, but collaboration would be awesome.

This topic is related. It shows how to use distance from center and rotation to control an osc~ and a phasor~.