JuggleMaster

JuggleMaster is a siteswap animator. If you know what that is, great. If you don't, you can just download the program and look at some of the builtin patterns, without understanding the notation.

JuggleMaster is mostly due to two people; Ken Matsuoka who did the original work on the core library, coming out with JuggleMaster for DOS sometime in the 1995-6 region, and Per Johan Groland, who ported it to C++ and did some other funky bits.

I've been adding some funky gui bits and other assorted features to it, and what is what you'll find here.

ScreenShots

Are these just a little too static for you? Below are a couple links to what the print button does for you:

MPEG - MPEG videos. Better Than The PostScript Ones(TM)
PostScript - PostScript hacks. That these exist is a testament to my idiocy

Download

ChangeLog README TODO

Windows Users: You want this file. You need nothing else, just extract it and run what you find.

Source

jugglemaster-0.4.tar.bz2

If you want the SVN:

svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/jugglemaster/trunk jugglemaster

Or there's a Probably current SVN checkout.
NOTE. If you wish to build with ffmpeg support, then please ensure you have downloaded and built ffmpeg, then edit Makefile.cfg in the source to point it at the directory where you built ffmpeg. I have a copy of ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1.tar.gz mirrored, if you need.

Binaries

It probably builds on some others, too, but I've not tried recently.

Ports

Thanks to a healthy amount of portable core code, JuggleMaster has ports to many systems.

Currently the src directory in the JuggleMaster tree includes:

aajm - ASCII art. A slightly crazy exercise
jmcocoa - OSX Cocoa port
jmdlx - wxWidgets. This works on at least Windows, Linux, OSX, Solaris, and a few others.
jmlib - the core JuggleMaster library.
jmlib-js - Jugglemaster Javascript - jmlib, rewritten using javascript
jmpalm - for PalmOS
jmpocket - for PocketPC/WinCE
jmqt - QT port, primarily for Zauras and other small devices
jmts - JMTorqueScript - a torquescript-only port that works with the Torque Game Engine [including Torque Game Builder]
jmwidget - Jugglemaster Widget - using jmlib-js, this works as either an Opera or a MacOSX dashboard widget

Mailing List

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To mail to the list, just e-mail jugglemaster@icculus.org. You must be a subscriber to post.

Docs

How JuggleMaster validates patterns: validate.txt

How JuggleMaster generates random patterns: random.txt

Extra Things

Here are a few things you're unlikely to find in any other juggling programs:

Semaphore Mode: It'll write out things you type in using semaphore [the thing with the flags, not the resource control, you dirty geeks]
Printing: And not just a snapshot, either. See higher up this page for examples.
Many things: Automatically downloads patterns from the web, supports up to 630 balls in one of the patterns, probably other stuff...

There's even an AALib version, that comes with a long list of example Stupid Abuses that you can do with it.

Notation References

siteswap.org, for the actual notation this program uses at it's core

The only reference out there that I've been able to find on Styles [and it's an excellent reference, actually. Only one step away from reading the source :-)] would be the one on Toshiyuki Mori's page. "Styles" Are what describes where the hands move, independant of the siteswap they're juggling

Gary (-;
<chunky@icculus.org>

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