This week we gave a talk and workshop at RIT. The students already knew the basics of Processing, so I put together some examples using external libraries to show how Processing could be extended. As I was searching processing’s libraries page I noticed a gif player / exporter library by Patrick Meister. He posted some sample code to make the process easier and I put together a quick application for recording gifs from your computer’s camera.

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Anthony and I recently gave a talk about the Lab and the type of work and projects that we create.

We displayed Twelement and many clever tweets that showed up in real time on the large projection.

We also did a processing workshop.

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For the video below, I needed a way to extrude any font into 3D objects for use with ofxBullet.

There are many ways to do this and other examples using OpenFrameworks in this thread. My approach was a little more complicated than it should have been, but it worked. I used the following to get the paths of the letters for any font:

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<code>
ofPath path = font.getCharacterAsPoints(letter);
vector <ofpolyline> polys = path.getOutline();
// resample the font points so that we have a point every (x) pixels;
for (int i = 0; i < polys.size(); i++) {
 
	// now resample and draw new dots
	ofPolyline sampled = polys[i].getResampledBySpacing(samplePixels);
	sampledPolys.push_back( sampled );
	// outline
	for (int j = 0; j < sampled.size(); j++) {
		points.push_back( ofVec3f(sampled[j].x, sampled[j].y, 0.));
	}
}
</code>
</ofpolyline></code>

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I just got back fromt the truly inspirational DIY 3D sensing event Art && Code 3D at Carnegie Mellon University. I was one of 34 presenters for the speed presentations that must be under 7 minutes. I presented Follow This!, a twitter based first person shooter game I made using the kinect. I very excited when the audience voted the project #3 of 34!! I won this kinect plushie! Thank you to everyone who voted.

I traced over a pencil drawing with Illustrator and then laser cut this little guy with some friends at IDEO. I then used the stencil to spray paint the design onto a t-shirt.

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