PovRAY tracing from ruby-processing

monkstone

PovRAY tracing from ruby-processing

in Processing with Other Languages • 1 years ago

Since the latest release of ruby-processing (1.0.10), it is now possible access java processing libraries from the sketchbook folder (of vanilla processing), this works great at present. However heaven help us when processing-2.0 compatible libraries are released, many libraries including my povwriter library are currently broken with processing-2.0.

Anyway I thought I would report on the development of an application/application framework that I developed in ruby-processing for the following reasons:-

It demonstrates use of a java processing library in ruby-processing
Calling an external programs from ruby-processing (PovRAY)
Rapid gui development thanks to the ruby-processing control_panel library
Easy prototyping of user interaction

I developed my script using jEdit (so running it was as simple as invoking a macro that called my commando file) Mac user will probably use textmate. See the results here, which is still work in progress (I might choose to save PovRAY settings to a ini file, and add sliders to control scaling etc).

PovRAY tracing from ruby-processing

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