[Fluxus] Limiting scale changes

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Gerry Grainger wrote:
> Hi. Bearing in mind that I'm an art student, and only an amateur 
> programmer (at best), can
> anyone suggest a decent and efficient way of limiting how much an object 
> scales, if it's influenced by gh?
> I can only tweak the gain and multiples of gh so much. is there some 
> kind of 'if z axis scale is greater than 20, hold at 20' kind of 
> command, that will fit with setting the z axis of an object to scale to, 
> say, (gh 14)?

I guess (min x y) is what you want - find the minimum of two numbers, 
which if one is fixed will do "upper bound" clipping that you want:

(min (gh 14) 20)

Not tested, I'm not currently near a machine with fluxus and my Scheme 
is rusty...

> I get that I can chuck in an if...then sort of statement, but will it 
> fit properly around the rest of the scale variable? I don't quite get 
> how to do this, is all.
> Cheers,
> Gerry

Hope this helps,


Claude
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