Assignment for Monday, August 29

Over the weekend, please read through and mess around with these tutorials: Grosse tutorials 1-4, Max Basic tutorials 1-8; if you have the chance, you might want to get a little ahead, since there is another assignment due on Wednesday.

Then, create a patch with four different sections:

1.Create a converter from one unit to another, using number boxes and sliders (or anything else you feel like adding, the sky's the limit). Grosse suggests Celsius to Fahrenheit; you could also do centimeters to inches, currency calculations (if you want to mess around with the http functions), etc.

2. In this section, one flonum will change the background color of three different number boxes; one red, one green and one blue.

3. Create a pack object that will combine a name (symbol), age (integer) and income level (float) for a set of professional athletes (or you can substitute other parameters like planets, plants, etc.). Use number boxes and flonums for the value inputs, and message boxes for the symbol inputs. Write the output to the Max Console (aka Max Window).

4. Create a pack object that will collect three color values, all between 0.0 and 1.0, and display the output in a message box. Force the output to occur whenever any value is changed.

Please email your patch to me before midnight on Sunday; then I should be able to look at them all on Monday morning and get them back to you. You may have to compress your patch by turning it into a .zip file before sending it (sometimes email filters out weird filename extensions like .maxpat).