typographic question :)

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uhcakip

in General Discussion • Other • 11 months ago

Hey guys, for an important school asignment I have to animate the letter Q in Processing.

I thought it was cool to make a Q out of moving particles but I really don't know how to do this.

This one, for example, is pretty awesome:

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/11123

Does anyone know how to manipulate the code to make a Q built out of particles from it?

I will be very grateful and maaaaybe even turn out a reward to the one that can help me with this.

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Chrisir

hello,

general remark: That is a very broad question and we can't see how far your own research went so far.
Did you search "letter" here in the forum? There are tons of examples. Did you check them out? We don't know.
When you have a small sketch you can show it here and we help you with that.

Approach via a library
When you use a lib you'll find examples in the lib.

e.g. a lib is used here:
http://forum.processing.org/topic/moving-a-letter-s-points-using-perlin-noise

It is this lib:

» Geomerative

by Ricard Marxer Pinon

Extends 2D geometry operations to facilitate generative geometry. Includes a TrueType font interpreter.

You can download it and look at the examples.

For more libs see here
http://processing.org/reference/libraries

Greetings, Chrisir

Chrisir

Re: typographic question :)

10 months ago

of course you can also use the sketch you posted.

Just in draw() tell him not to paint the particle when a particle is outside Q.

But when your teacher asks you how does it work, what do you say...?