Hi, what would be the best strategy to visualise the spread of (many) sources (for HOA) in spat5.viewer? Scaling the sources itself is too overwhelming and cluttered, unless used with very low opacity. With aperture 180, there is a nice transparent halo around it, but it scales with the source (/proportion). Anything I’m missing here? Cheers!
Hi Diemo,
There is currently no great way to do that.
One possible ‘hack’ would be to display the sources as ‘stereo pairs’, and to map the spread value to the width of the stereo pair… This requires a bit of adaptation of the OSC messages (see attached patcher).
Not ideal, but better than nothing ?
Cheers,
T.
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