I know there has been alotta 3D text posts around here lately, but it has been a good challenge and learning experience, so deal.
This time though I’ve stepped into a new language: Python.
Anderson Miller and I are colaborating on our final for GLART: rendering the web (or maybe just wikipedia) in a 3D universe. Read more »
I struggled last week trying to find the right shape for all the wine data to build around. Eventually I settled on a cylinder… and was somewhat pleased, but then I showed the app to a fellow student and they suggested making it into a 3D wine bottle; and I said “Yeah, that makes sense.” So here you go… the wine visualization from last week using processing and openGL, but now in bottle form.
Alas, text again.
That ok though… I like type, and I would really like to make it easy to do 3D geometric type in opengl. So this week in GL Art I made another stab at fonts in 3D. Initially I wanted to automate the entire process of getting the font file into opengl, but I hit a wall when it came to making triangles out of the font outlines. I’m sure there is something out there that would help with that bit, but I don’t know it, so I moved on. The next best thing I could think of Read more »
For some reason, this week I just wanted to make something that looked cool. I have been doing a lot of ‘interface’ stuff and thinking about functionality… so I was hankerin’ for a change of pace. Luckily the data set for this assignment is all about frivolity; wine… more than 5,000 different bottles to be exact, were given to us, along with all their metadata. Read more »