In this example, multiple clients can send the position of a circle on screen (moved through touch or pointer) to a server via websockets. The server calculates the mean position of all conntected clients and sends it back to them. In addition, the server sends the mean position via OSC.
A particular client page (max-receiver.html) can receive and output the mean position in Cycling'74 Max using the jweb and udpreceive objects.
By default the example uses a local web server.
The follwing files are important:
index.html/client.js: the web client allowing for sending positions to the servermax-receiver.html/max-receiver.js: the web client allowing for recieving the mean position in Cycling'74 Maxmax-receiver.maxpat: a Max patch receiving the data using a jweb objectserver.js: the node.js server
To run the example with a local server:
- install the node packages:
npm install - launch the server:
node server.js - open the client webpage
index.htmlin your favourite browser - open the Max patch
max-receiver.maxpatin Cycling'74 Max