Processing evaluation
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:43
Hello:
Command Line Quaternions is web hostile. I am interested in finding a multimedia programming tool that is web friendly. The software at processing.org may fit the requirements. Since multimedia platforms come and go, it is hopeful that this one is still going on since 2001. I like the idea that sound could be added with the events. Since the project is open source, we may be able to talk about how time is handled (currently as a step).
The technology was suggested to me by Dan Bernier at BarCampBoston #4. It is written in Java, a language I worked with a when in version 1.0. I have order 4 books on the topic.
Doug
Hello:
The 4 books have come in. I read one of them. One of the main messages of the book is that Processing is a dialect of Java. It speeds up getting applets to the web by including libraries needed for such a task. I was also struck by the parallels between C and Java. Sure, Java is strongly typed and loves to make objects - both of which can be done in C, but not as easily. The for loops are the same, so if I look at the code as C that mandates an object structure, the differences don't look that big.
There is a variable, frameCount, which could be used for time. If we want an animation lasting 100 frames and looping, then if we want to show an event in frame 3, it would be in frameCount % 100 == 3.