I'm currently struggling to think my way through a problem and was hoping for some suggestions. I have a project working with typography and want to use a few different algorithms to simulate simple effects that build text using for example particles, or kind of biologically growing text.
I was just wanting some opinions and how to get the text position/data without drawing it to screen, so this data can be used to manipulate different objects.
Currently i've tried drawing nearly invisible text and used get(x,y) to distinguish between background and the type. This has worked well for some things and seems really slow when i have a lot of objects i guess this is because drawing an image and looping through all the pixels is very costly.
My only other idea was to use an offscreen buffer to draw the image then perhaps loop through the image and stash all the pixel data in an array.
I hope someone with a little more experience has a far more elegant solution that they could share. I feel like there is a simpler way of achieving this that i can't see.
Hi everyone,
I found a sketch i was hoping to use as an interactive demonstration in part of a presentation I'm giving in college on interactivity and dynamic typography. I was looking to make some changes but have had trouble implementing what should be a simple task. The program is a basic particle system in which particles are gravitated towards towards words. The problem being i would like to map new words related to the theme and have these work with input from the keyboard. I'm afraid this is short notice as the talk is tomorrow but if anyone has time and is able to help or discuss this email me for more info at
shaun.dowling@gmail.com.
Hi i recently found a piece of open source code that would be perfect for a college assignment over at openprocessing.org. I've been fiddling around with it changing type and variables but i am baffled by the key-mapping.
I was wondering if it is possible to key map more text, so for example "Hello" would be maped to A and "Goodbye" would be mapped to D. I am not sure whether it is possible to implement this in the code. Any help/advice figuring this out would be much appreciated.
