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mig
Ray-Object Intersection Question
Jan 8th, 2010, 8:39am  
Hi,

im looking to write a program that will take a set of boxes (3d objects, 6 coordinates each) and set of lines and give out visually and textually the amount of collisions and their coordinates.  

Before i get into learning the Syntax, i wanted to ask if processing is what im looking for?  Im good with java, and sure Ill be able to learnt he Ray-Object intersection algorithms.  im not so sure if Processing is a real programming language, and if its performant enough for this.  

Anyone?

Kind regards from Germany
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PhiLho 
Re: Ray-Object Intersection Question
Reply #1 - Jan 8th, 2010, 8:45am  
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im not so sure if Processing is a real programming language, and if its performant enough for this.

Processing is actually Java: after some pre-processing, it spits out Java code and compiles that to run it. So, yes, that's a real programming language, quite powerful.

Performance: there are ray-tracing programs written in Java, so I suppose it is performs well enough for that, thus for your needs.
Might depend on number of boxes, rays, and needed rate of computation (ie. frame rate).
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mig
Re: Ray-Object Intersection Question
Reply #2 - Jan 10th, 2010, 6:19am  
thank you for your reply.  has anyone here ever done this before with processing?
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