I did not understang the drawpolygon syntax.
here is the syntax of millers in 'Jupiter' patch

drawpolygon 244 0 1 0 0 0 1 duration 1 duration 0

I read the help patch, and change the value, but I d'ont see changes in the sub patch resulting.
what is the meaning of the nombers sucessing drawpolygon ? where is the color number ?

attached is the patch that simulate how the scalar are used in 'Jupiter' patch.

many thanks

testScalar.pd

ok, in the help patch get-helo.pd, there is an example with the object filledopolygon~
by experiment :
1st argument : is for color ;
2nd argument : is color of the stroke ;
3ht the height of the stroke ;
and the rest is pair of (x,y) points to be connected ;

facts is that filledopolygon != drawpolygon
and we have not a help patch for filledopolygon ...

cheers

Here is the best tutorial for building data structures that I have found:

https://puredata.info/community/projects/convention04/lectures/tk-barknecht/tut.tgz

@mx: For [drawpolygon] the 1st arg is stroke color, 2nd is stroke width, and the rest are the points for the polygon.

I have a new object in Pd-l2ork called [draw] with messages to set coordinate data and other attributes based on SVG. It's way easier to remember [points a b c( and [fill blue( than it is to remember various positional arguments.

I find the syntax explanation in 4.data.structures
""
The filledpolygon's arguments are interior color, border color, border width, and then the points of the polygon. Arguments which are symbols ("q" and "z" in this case) mean to take the values from the data structure. Other values are constant. The position of the object is automatically controlled by fields named "x" and "y".
""