Hi - yesterday i visited the decode exhibition in the V&A London and was totaly blown away by some of the exhibits.

Whilst reading the guide on the train home i was introduced to this software and i spent some time last night exploring because i think it might be the perfect tool for my latest project.

I am a carpenter by trade and have very little programming exp but Im very eager to learn. My idea is to recreate a more creative version of the thermal type swell charts that can be viewed here on  

magicseaweed.com the colourful charts that you see on the front page

These charts are created in Python with MATPLOT LIB and are fed by freely available GRIB data fom the NOAA.

I have created some software with the help of someone else that downloads the GRIB data then applys my own algorithims to reflect what local conditions are needed for good surfing conditions at any given lat/lon this then creates a CSV file that returns a value between 1 and 5 for the different variables such as wind, wave height, wave direction. eg. if the GRIB data shows a SW wind blowing at 40 mph for my local beach and i know that the best wind is usuall a NE then it will return a value of 0 if the GRIB reads a NE wind at 5mph it would return 5 etc, the software then totals up all of the variables and produces an overall of score between 0-50 for a chosen beach.

Is something like this possible to intergrate with Processing? it would be great to be able to show a location on a map that was for example returning a total value of over 40 which would indicate that good surfing conditions were happening at that location. FYI the GRIB data updates every 3 hours and the software will automatically download and write a CSV file to the server.

Im ploughing my way through the tutorials and finding it very rewarding, but it would be nice if someone could tell me if im barking up the wrong tree or could show me some pointers.

Thanks in advance
Al

Thanks Cedrick for the advice im trying to replace the world map with wikimedia United_Kingdom_location_map.svg, I changed the png file to the UK version and resized the window but i guess the co-ordinates are still based on the world projection. Ive been scouring the tutorials but seemed to have drawn a blank.

What am i missing?

Cheers
Al

Cedric wrote on Mar 29^th, 2010, 2:57pm:


Would anyone be interested in a little freelance tutoring to explain to me how to intergrate data from a csv file into processing, ive got quite a few ideas how to visualise the data with processing but im lacking some core skills.

The data can be viewed here rollingsixes.co.uk/testingsixsurf/SixSurf007.htm i only need to display the data in the last column which is a overall score for the quality of surfing conditions for a given lat/lon

I will be ordering the book at the weekend, but if anyone is interested in helping me please let me know.

Many Thanks

Hi, Ive started to animate some images that represent wave heights in the North Atlantic - im hoping to learn processing to add some more interaction to the images in the future but now im very new to this and im experiencing some problems.

rollingsixes.co.uk/testingsixsurf/applet/index.html

The animation consists of 60 521x611 PNG images when i include all of the images in the script and press play it works fine. When i export the file and test the index.htm it seems to stop functioning when i include over 24 images. Is there something i need to change in the code?

Also the 'box' seems to cut off the bottom right of the images i have set up the size to match the PNG size so im a little confused why it doesnt display correct this also displays correct when i press the play button locally.

If anyone has any cool ideas what processing could do with these images please let us know.

Many Thanks
Al