I think I’ve written about Proce55ing before. It’s a cool little Java tool for making graphics applets really easily. It’s a veneer over Java’s own graphics functionality (and other stuff, sound, networking), but an extremely fun and useful one. Kind of like Flash in a way, but more programmery. It’s a great piece of software, it makes it fun to play in code.

Today I messed around with the 3D functions. They’re pretty basic, but they’re extremely simple to use. I realised that if I’d taken the time to write myself a library of simple rotateY, translate, etc. functions, like p5 has, I would have had a much easier time with 3D. It’s always been the maths that raise the entry price too high, so I should have done it once and left it behind me. Being able to visualise the operations I’m doing by way of outputting them as cubes has also increased my understanding of the maths as well.

Anyway, I made some nice vector 3D stuff, will show it off when the time comes. Nothing new has gone into the content section for a while.