arc painter

As we start brain­storm­ing new app inter­faces based around monome.org’s new arc con­troller, I want­ed a tool for sketch­ing out illus­tra­tions. Came up with this:

Again, this is not an arc emu­la­tor. It won’t send or receive OSC com­mands, let you pre­view ani­ma­tions, or inter­act with a vir­tu­al con­troller in any mean­ing­ful way. But it may still prove handy for visu­al­iz­ing and explain­ing some things.

Instruc­tions:

• Click­ing a col­or at bot­tom selects that col­or. If the “all” ring at bot­tom-right is enabled, all LEDs will change to that color.
• Click­ing the “all” ring will enable or dis­able it.
• Click­ing an LED up top will change it to the select­ed col­or (and dis­able the “all” ring)
• Click­ing an LED up top, if it col­or already matched your selec­tion, will revert that LED to the col­or it was set to last before this.
• When you’ve arranged things ade­quate­ly to illus­trate what you had in mind, take a screen­shot. Do what you need to in Pho­to­shop and attach the results to a forum post.

As this was a quick sketch itself, the source code isn’t all that excit­ing, but if you’ve got Flash CS4 handy and some time to kill, have at it.