Processing Library

Library Component

Figure A: Display Component Block Diagram

• Download Library from this Link: Pov3D-0.1.5.zip
  (Full source Library Source Code at GitHub )
• Complete Library Documentation: JavaDoc

Brief Overview

Drawing the display require you create a display object, then in the draw method of you sketch, 1st Clear it, then draw “primitives” into it, and finally export() it to the display….

POVDisplay g_display = null;

setup() {
  // ...
  g_display = new POVDisplay("10.10.1.99"/* Display IP */, 90 /* Slices */);
  // ...
}

draw() {
  g_display.clear(); // clear volume
  // drawing to volume
  // eg. Dots,Spheres,Lines
  g_display.dot(0,0,0); // simplest draw function, 
  g_display.export(); // send volume to display
}

Drawing Primitives currently include.

1. Dot
2. Sphere
3. Line
4. Box
5. Poly (line)

Some Examples:

g_display.dot(0,0,0); 
Sphere s = new Sphere(2, DrawMode.OUTLINE);
s.draw();

they can be combined with Matrix transformation functions, which are stacked. See the “ThreeDeeMe” working example in the library’s example folder, or this code for inspiration.

g_display.pushMatrix();
for(int i = 0; i < 72; i++) {
    g_display.dot(10,0,0);
    g_display.rotateY(radians(5 /* Degrees */ ));
}
g_display.popMatrix();

The matrix functions include:

• popMatrix()
• pushMatrix()
• resetMatrix()
• rotateX(float angle)
• rotateY(float angle)
• rotateZ(float angle)
• scale(float s)
• scale(float x, float y, float z)
• sphere(processing.core.PVector pos, int size)
• translate(float tx, float ty, float tz)
• translate(PVector p)

Complete documentation is here: POVDisplay