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thomas-schnitzel
Ascii video effect with shapes instead of letters
Oct 23rd, 2008, 12:02am  
Hi there,

I am wondering about the best way to make an ASCII video type effect without using letters but shapes. The shapes I want to use are not simple shapes like a circle or rect but rather quite complex multicolored shapes, like the ones seen here: http://patternfoundry.com/detail.html?node=72

I tried using simply images but drawing so many images per frame brought processing to a halt. So I am thinking now the easiest would be to make a simplified version using quads or make a font out of them but  that would mean losing the colors.

Any tips very welcome!

Thanks!
Tommi
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PhiLho 
Re: Ascii video effect with shapes instead of lett
Reply #1 - Oct 23rd, 2008, 10:38pm  
I am not sure to fully understand. Do you mean each base pattern is a vector shape (drawn with beginShape and all)

If so, if you don't need to scale them, you can just draw them once at the need scale, all in one image, then load this image in a PImage and blit (using copy()) them on screen at the wanted coordinate. A bit like old video games did with bitmap fonts.
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