drag an drop works...but if i manually select another image it load the first one

Chrome on w10

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@mark

Just created a new account and have no problem uploading images in the initial post.

Best Michel

Get the Sony ALPHA 6300 or 6500, its just under a grand, it is the best camera out there in that range, hands down! I even know people who have downgraded from the A7 because of the dynamic autofocus of the 6300/6500, which is amazing if you want to do gimbal/drone shots.

let me know if you want to play with mine before deciding

it will give you berautiful 4k sLog3 footage so you can play with the new LUT stuff in izzy. And it does 100fps at 1080 which is fun

@bonemap said:

Good luck with your bargain hunting a good machine at the right price has got to be out there somewhere.

and thank you for sharing the link  - it's brought home to me the importance of resolution consideration.

i have several auctions on ebay being watched. hopefully updates to follow.

@jhoepffner

Trump got elected and I'm finally fleeing the country.

Best wishes,

Woland

@bonemap said:

What about file efficiency, cycles and FPS

Good point... and it is something that I have already looked into. My research so tells me that there won't be measurable difference on performance, because – internally on all modern Intel processors – the size of the floating point value doesn't affect performance. Here's quote from one Stackoverflow article on the topic:

The classic x86 architecture uses floating-point unit (FPU) to perform floating-point calculations. The FPU performs all calculations in its internal registers, which have 80-bit precision each. Every time you attempt to work with float or double, the variable is first loaded from memory into the internal register of the FPU. This means that there is absolutely no difference in the speed of the actual calculations, since in any case the calculations are carried out with full 80-bit precision. The only thing that might be different is the speed of loading the value from memory and storing the result back to memory. Naturally, on a 32-bit platform it might take longer to load/store a double as compared to float. On a 64-bit platform there shouldn't be any difference.

In the end, the video processing (even on the GPU) and the disk throughput are the two factors that affect Isadora's performance.

Best Wishes,
Mark

there is the bubble icon, top right.
with a link to: community.troikatronix.com/user/YourUSERname/chats

Happy Pride!

(Made with Isadora)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzxe...

Best wishes,

Woland

@craigalfredson

Hi,

I have made a couple of rigid rear projection screens using self-adhesive back projection film. Although I have used mostly the alternative product recommended in the report of tests at New York University of diffusion window tint films compared to optical screen films that found them to be comparable in image quality, brightness, viewing angle and hot spot reduction under optimal light conditions.

The main reason is the reduction of cost which is significant when covering large street front windows for one off back projection projects. The product I use is Solyx window tint films, the SX-324 Frosted Sparkle.

The image below (a popular glsl shader being projected) is a side window of a much larger window treatment to an historical building using the Frosted Sparkle film on all of the windows of the single story building. Unfortunately, we left the film in place for a couple of days too long and it ended up taking 4 people about 5 hours to remove it all with razor blades.

I have made two of these great rigid back projection screens (below) using standard size 4mm acrylic sheeting and DIY'ing the application of the Frosted Sparkle film using lots of water with a couple of drops of detergent sprayed with an atomiser onto the sheet under the film so it can continue to be manipulated (and bubbles squeezed out) before sticking firmly to the sheeting. What's really nice about these is the projection is right to the edge (using Isadora's stage setup points) so the image appears to float. I intended to make 3 of them, but I attempted to apply the Frosted Sparkle by myself one day and it ended up a massive disaster - once the film gets stuck to itself or folds onto itself and gets stuck it is game over! The other 2 that were successful had 4 people assisting to ensure the film went down smoothly and in place. We used high density soft foam blocks to squeegee the bubbles out without leaving marks on the film.

best wishes

bonemap

@tomthebom

It shouldn't. It's a link to a video I posted to the public Isadora Facebook page.

@skulpture

Hi everybody!

my goldfish makes music and painting since 2010, there are maybe other fish artist…(Isadora+ Ableton live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1VuPpIHWI

 and he is theatre performer too (see « Homefish » here :

http://chezzef.free.fr/installations.html)

best regards!

Christine

By the way, thanks to isadora, i can translate my words into tweets for birds. Now i have new friends!

CUICUITEUR : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIzvz4dfKfM

I came from a similar background. Reaktor, Ableton Live, VDMX. The node based learning made sense to me and then I found Isadora. I realised it did everything I wanted and lots lots more. 

Welcome to the forum and I look forward to seeing what you get up to with our beautiful software. 

This problem can only be solved with specific details about your throw distance, desired image size/ screen size, venue dimensions, timeline, and other project requirements and limitations. Most importantly your budget.

If you can provide more specific details on your needs and budget, I can point you towards some materials and further recommendations.

@woland Very funny!

Hello all,

For any of you that create your own applications, there's a great deal going on right now at Humble Bundle where you can get US$734-worth of UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface) digital books for $15. (Recommended by one of the IT groups I'm in on Facebook.) Just bought it myself.

Best wishes,

Woland

@woland Wow, Wow, Wow !!!

Hello all,

Here's a neat, open source site that looks at Wikipedia activity and generates simple music based on what type of action was performed. The website is http://listen.hatnote.com/, but there's also an iOS app, and a github. It allows you to listen to Wikipedia and set various parameters as to what you're listening to, which I find lets you make nice, neutral-sounding audio every time.

It makes very relaxing music that I sometimes record and use for preshow music for smaller, artsy projects where this type of vibe fits. (I pre-record it so that I can fade it in and out using Isadora so that I don't have to hop between software while starting the show.)

Ahead of the performance, I'll open up the site and capture "x" minutes of preshow music using free software called OBS and iShowU Audio Capture to capture and record my own desktop audio, which leaves me with audio files I can then fade in and out easily using Isadora. 

Hope some of you find all of this, or parts of it, interesting or helpful.

Best wishes,

Woland 

P.S. These instructions are only for Mac, but if someone based on Windows wants to contribute how to do this sort of audio routing and recording on Windows, that would be fabulous. The hatnote website and OBS will both work for Windows, it's just a matter of the free audio routing software and how to set it up  really.

@plastictaxi said:

...so, is "2 instance izzy" is a hack? or just a riskier way of running? 

 The fact that you are experiencing program crashes probably answers this. I guess we learn our own methods and developments when putting shows together. It is really wonderful that Isadora allows the flexibility for each user to craft a unique system. 

Technical theatre operators in my city are still apprehensive about my methods when I work in their theatres. They are unfamiliar and skeptical about a software that controls all the technical aspects of the theatre in one box. One of those concerns is really valid, and that is the question of is the system prone to crash? And how long will it take to reinstate the system when if it does?

If you are using Isadora and experience a program crash, even once, during a public showing in a large theatre it is going to be hard to recover from that in terms of the level of trust and anticipation of risk when approaching the next production.

There are many ways to mitigate the risk, such as assigning a solid black desktop color and setting projectors to a black screen so that you are not suddenly projecting unintended logos and desktop images in front of audiences if Isadora crashes.

I tend to develop total theatre projects where all of the elements interact and it all happens in primary and secondary active scenes within Isadora. I am more inclined to run multiple instances of Isadora on separate computers and network them together. Often I will have a patch on a machine that is focused on audio and running visuals and another machine that is running lighting through a dmx interface and running more visuals. I have used KVM switches to monitor and access each machine but generally building one control interface that can be extended to a wireless controller such as TouchOSC.

But I would say that using Isadora enables great diversity in application that extends far outside the standard formats of technical theatre and well beyond the architecture of the theatre itself. 

We may have to accept that with great flexibility we are prone to programming in less stable territory. And it might be that the openness and diversity of valid approaches possible when developing with Isadora is also a reason that it is underestimated and perhaps undervalued by the sector?

I am speculating.

Best wishes

Bonemap