i'm programming an interactive installation that has images animations, movements form one side of the screen to the other, occasionally.
i didn't expect problems with this, as it's so simple, but the results of the moving images are terrible – the images seems parted at some moments and the movement is not fluid as i expected.
first, i thought it was related to the big size of the images i'm using (some of them with 1000x2000px), but i decided to make a test with a little one (300x400px) and this short piece of code below:

Code:

PImage i;
int p;

void setup(){
  size(1024, 768);
  smooth();
  i = loadImage("img.jpg");
  p = -i.width;
}

void draw(){
  background(200);
  image(i, p, 100);
  p += 2;
  if(p > width) p = -i.width;
}
 

the result was the same, bad.
any tips? has someone already dealt with this?

The problem is that you use the default mode, JAVA2D, which is a pure software mode, not the fastest.
Moreover, I feel that redrawing isn't synchronized with display (although I don't know if that concept has still a meaning with LCD screens).
If you use hardware graphics acceleration (ie., in Processing, OPENGL), you might see an improvement, but perhaps a lower quality...