Programming with Processing 105
This is a part of a beginning Processing tutorial series. If you’re new to Processing, start at the beginning! As we continue our series on the basics of programming with Processing, we’ll look at extending the “Ball” class we created in the last set to include a user-controlled “Puck” object that can be used to turn this little app into a kind of air-hockey...
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Now that we’ve looked at the basics of the PVector object class, and even created some of our own objects, lets see if we can make the balls bounce off of one another! This will be the simplest 2D collision physics possible, with nothing extra whatsoever, and the math is surprisingly simple! Grab the code from...
Read MorePresentations from Photoshop using Layer Comps
I typically create PDF presentations using inDesign, but there are times when it’s more convenient to do it straight from Photoshop. Here’s a great little workflow for creating a PDF presentation from Photoshop, using a greatly under-used feature called ‘Layer...
Read MoreSurfacing an iPad in SolidWorks
The back of an iPad is a perfect example of the classic “crowned surface” frequently used in industrial design. We’ve seen it done in Rhino, so here I’ll demonstrate a method for creating a good-quality class-a surface in...
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This is a part of a beginning Processing tutorial series. If you’re new to Processing, start at the beginning! In the last set of tutorials, we looked at how to make a basic circle “bounce” around inside a processing window. In this set, we’ll introduce two new concepts that should help make this simple program more powerful and flexible: ‘PVector’, and...
Read MoreSolidWorks 2010, Beginner
SolidWorks Class 101: coffee maker – video 00 of 16 from Adam OHern on Vimeo. SolidWorks has become one of the most ubiquitous CAD packages in the consumer product design industry. Its primary competitor is ProEngineer, though it belongs to an entire class of 3D packages called “parametric solid modelers”. Though great strides have been made in recent years, most parametric...
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