Title says it all. I am thinking of a patch that could generate a few shapes based on different lists unpacking into gemheads.

[square cube triangle (
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[unpack s s s]

then sending the different symbols out. However, having an object of $s is obviously not viable.
Any easy way to go about this?

@gummi Hello Gummi.......
You could create and destroy the gemheads according to the list, but that would get very messy.
The simple solution would be to have as many active as necessary (for any possible list), and turn them on/off and re-order them according to your lists....
David.

That is what I am realizing. I am teaching a workshop on GEM and wanted a fun/simple way to illustrate $S variables, I thought this would be a visually stimulating way but will obviously need to find a different route.

@gummi Maybe you could have some fun with "line" "fill" "point" instead?
Also feel free to use this for some fun.......... showing how to get a variable into a message in the first place.........
futile.pd
David.