Posts about processing

Camera3D and ColorBlindness Releases

After many years of no activity, I have released new versions of my Camera3D and ColorBlindness libraries for Processing. I suspect that both libraries are no longer used by the Processing community because much of the functionality and example code didn't work correctly on MacOS high density displays and nobody said anything. These releases refresh the example code, fix some problems, and add some new features. I have also updated the documentation for both libraries.

Here are the specific fixes and improvements:

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

As I did for 2023, 2022 and 2021, I used my Axidraw to create my holiday cards. This year, I also added some water colors to the designs, partly because the idea of combining pen plotting with water colors has been on my mind for a while, and partly because I thought these cards needed some color to be complete.

two holiday cards with a christmas wreath on each and the words "happy holidays" or "merry christmas" across the top

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

This year I used my new Axidraw to create my holiday cards. I'm very happy with the result:

holiday card with a wire frame christmas tree and the words "happy holidays" across the top

holiday card with a wire frame christmas tree and the words "merry christmas" across the top

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Better late than never Camera3D Release

A few days ago the Processing Foundation made the beta release of Processing 4 available for download. This was a great opportunity for me to review the Camera-3D and ColorBlindness libraries to make sure all of the example code works with the new version. I had to make some small changes here and there, as well as update some code to adapt to changes to the Shapes3D library. Everything now works and is ready for you to use in your creative projects.

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

This is the 3D animation I made for my holiday cards, using the open source library I've been building, py5. You'll need ChromaDepth glasses to see the 3D effect properly.

Music: This is Christmas by Scott Holmes Music.

The snowflakes are from the old and widely used WWFlakes font by WindWalker64.

The actual source code for this animation is available on github as a gist. This is a good example of how one can easily augment py5 with a Java Processing library.

This animation took some time to create because I first had to figure out how to implement ChromaDepth in Java. It's also the first time I did something notable in Processing using shaders, and that took some effort to learn. Shaders are a topic I've been wanting to explore for a long time and am happy I got the opportunity to do so while creating this. I'm also happy that py5 performed well during the development process. I didn't have to fix any bugs. Hooray!

Also have a look at the animations for 2015, 2016, and 2018. Those animations all require red-cyan anaglyph 3D Glasses.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

This is the 3D animation I made for my holiday cards. View this with red-cyan 3D Glasses (red on the left, cyan on the right).

If you don't have 3D glasses you can watch the non-anaglyph version.

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Camera3D and 360 Video

A new version of Camera3D has been released!

Version 1.2 supports 360 videos. Here is an example:

In addition, I made some performance improvements using new tools found in Java 1.8. Processing 2.x is no longer supported.

More information available on the Camera-3D Camera-3D project page.