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Comparing ways to count

#1

vvvvolks,

my recent patch involves counting up a number of images to be displayed – think of a kind of slide show. i have found two ways to do the counting part of it (see attached patch or screenshot), approach #1 is adapted from the slide show module shipping with vvvv and approach #2 is what i built in a more simple manner.

mind you, there’s got to be a a reason why someone (david i think) chose a slightly more complex way to do it.

thoughts?

timed_counters_2010.06.29-21.07.54.jpg (25.5 kB)
timed_counters.v4p (8.2 kB)

#2

go for the Counter, it will not get out of time.

i guess whoever implemented the other aproach just had another idea and persued it and went on to more important parts of the patch…

#3

Yeh, go with counter, framedelayed feedback loops should never be a first choice.

I think who ever made the Slideshow patch (in girlpower) didn’t realize he/she was making a counter node.

#4

thx mates! i assumed that the counter node might have some kind of performance or long time issue that has been avoided by using approach #1. once again, simple things rule ;)

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