Hello all

If you have been reading my latest posts you know I am taking RSS feeds and using them in a visualization.

I am trying to draw objects in a particular shape/area.  Normally I could find a way by using the coordinates of a particular area but this time I am using a pretty complex shape.  I want to draw the objects on the land of a world map outline.  I can begin to think of ways to get processing to interpret a world map image and draw the objects based on that interpretation (for instance having a silhouette of the map and having it only draw on the black pixels).  But I dont know if there is an easier way or even how to do that exactly because I am a newbie.  Also eventually I would like to seperate where I want to draw the objects to different continents (which would be a flaw in my pixel plan).

Thanks for listening and helping.

downloaded the library and its real cool stuff glad I have it.

I still cant find out how to draw within the shapes however.

Code:

  grp.draw();
  RPoint p = new RPoint(mouseX-width/2, mouseY-height/2);
  for(int i=0;i<grp.countChildren();i++){
    if(grp.children[i].contains(p)){
	 RG.ignoreStyles(true);
	 fill(0,100,255,250);
	 noStroke();
	 // what i want is --ellipse(random(area of shape), 
	 // random(area of shape), 20,20)--
	 grp.children[i].draw();
	 RG.ignoreStyles(ignoringStyles);
    }
 

i want to draw inside of each child, grp.children[i].draw, but I dont know how to get the sum of that area and draw an ellipse but i do not know how to get the area of shape