On Saturday 20 August I attended the Service Design Boot Camp workshop at General Assembly in Melbourne, which was pretty cool. I’ve been interested in the discipline for some time, exploring aspects of design process, prototyping, testing and iterating with Coursera’s Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society open online course online course, but I’ve never had …
I’m not alone. There are others who’ve experienced the same failed build as an Error from inside the Android tools, check the console with Processing 2.1? or an Android java issue. Some have solved the issue. I haven’t. Even the working through the processing android instructions and getting busy in the terminal to make it easier to examine …
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Making my way through the Loading text files from the hard drive recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe, I learned how to use the loadStrings() function to load a text file from my hard drive into the String array. I also learned how to loop through the array in the …
I’m having trouble with the surfaceTouchEvent in the Responding to touch interaction recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. I’ve worked through the Troubleshooting, Discussion and Known issues, Common problems, Understanding changes to processing.core sections of the Android page of the Processing Wiki, but still no success. Unsurprisingly, someone else posted a …
Making my way through the Accessing screen size and density recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the Android DisplayMetrics class to determine general information about the display of the device used to run the sketch. While this is more of a diagnostic …
Inspired by Tom Woodwards’s Dune-themed tweet on 24 April 2014, Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb’s production on Fear Factory’s Fear Is the Mindkiller EP and the Bene Gesserit’s litany against fear and based on Jan Vantomme’s Drawing text and Running your sketch on an Android device Processing recipes on Github, I created this portable litany against fear as …
Making my way through the Drawing triangle and quad strips recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the QUAD_STRIP and TRIANGLE_STRIP parameters inside the beginShape function to draw triangle or quad 3D geometry to screen. With some work, QUAD_STRIP and TRIANGLE_STRIP could be used to …
Making my way through the Mixing 2D and 3D objects recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the ENABLE_DEPTH_TEST and the DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST parameter inside the hint function at the beginning and end of the draw function to to enable and disable the z buffer. This …
Making my way through the Making polygon soup recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to create a 3D cylinder with a flexible function that allows for the top, bottom and sides of the cylinder to be customised. In this recipe, the QUAD_STRIP parameter (draws a series …
Making my way through the Using lights recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe, I learned how to declare the lightMode and lightDirection integers to allow for different lighting modes to be activated. Inside the setUp function they’re assigned a value of 0 and then referenced again in the if test. …
Making my way through the Drawing 3D primitives recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how: the box function can be used with one or three parameters to set different values for depth, width and height of the box. the sphereDetail function can be used to define …
Making my way through the Understanding 3D space recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how set a variable for depth and zSpeed and also how to change the variable inside the draw function for animation. I also learned that if you want to use the rect …
Making my way through the Offscreen drawing recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to: declare a PGraphics object and then initialise it with the createGraphics function inside the setup function. use the createGraphics function to create a new transparent image to be drawn on and …
Making my way through the Manipulating SVG files recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned: more about using the shape function to draw shapes in the display window how to declare the PShape object and create custom variables (snowFlake, small1 to small6 and big1) and the disableStyle, …
Making my way through the Drawing custom shapes recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about some of Processing’s funky functions that can be used to draw custom shapes such as a star and a flower. I also learned about the vertex, beginShape and endShape functions.
Making my way through the Calculating points on a curve recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the bezierPoint and curvePoint functions to calculate points on curves and splines. bezierPoint uses five parameters. The first four are coordinates for the anchor and control points …
Making my way through the Drawing curves recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the bezier and curve functions to draw Bezier curves and Catmull-rom splines in the display window. For the Bezier curves in this example, 0 and 20 are the coordinates for the first anchor …
Making my way through the Drawing text recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to declare PFont objects for the fonts to be used in the Sketch and set the second parameter of the textFont function to determine the size of the text. For example, textFont …
Making my way through the Working with images recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to: use the loadImage function to load an image from my data folder into my Sketch declare a boolean (pixelMode) for the if test use the image function to display the …
Making my way through the Drawing basic shapes recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the rect, ellipse, quad and triangle functions to draw basic geometric shapes. I also found it interesting how two for loops are used to create the grid background pattern. I’m curious …
Making my way through the Keyboard interaction recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about using keyPressed, keyReleased and keyTyped functions to assign keys on the keyboard to execute code and also a bit more about if tests and declaring variables, particularly changing their values when specified keys are …
Making my way through the Mouse interaction recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about the mouseClicked, mouseDragged, mouseMoved, mousePressed and mouseReleased functions. I also learned about the mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY, mousePressed and mouseButton variable. The mouseButton variable allows you to determine if the left, right …
Making my way through the Maths functions recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about declaring variables and the abs, ceil, floor, round, sq, sqrt, min, max, and dist functions. I also learned how to use the println function to display output of functions to the Processing console window. …
I wanted to draw a grid. Previously, I specified each horizontal and vertical line in my sketch. Totally boring, inefficient and completely inflexible way to draw repetitive lines. So, I checked out the Processing reference on for loops and then applied that methodology to my existing sketch. Tight! This could be the method to use to …
This probably isn’t the most efficient way to draw lines to form a grid pattern, but this method is helping me to understand the coordinate system. The most efficient way would probably be to use a for loop. They’re next.
Making my way through the My first sketch recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about the size (displayWidth and displayHeight have now replaced screenWidth and ScreenHeight), setup, draw, point, line and strokeWeight functions.
One of the items included in my list of ‘What’s next’ to be considered for development in future iterations of augmented contextual instruction is to depart from the use of proprietary augmented reality platforms and pursue the development of device and platform agnostic augmented contextual instruction and additional augmented reality experiences for display in web …
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Mental note. I need to do some homework. I need to determine how I can use the Metaio SDK and Unity as an alternative to Blender and Aurasma for developing AR experiences for my VET Development Centre Specialist Scholarship. AR in the browser with something like JSARToolKit library with the WebRTC getUserMedia API Brekel Kinect …
