Andiamo reference manual – Part 1

The release v20 of Andiamo, the software tool for live drawing and audiovisual performance that I have been developing during the last months at the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA, has reached a level of usability and stability that justifies the publication of a first user reference manual. This first manual will spread over the following entries in this blog. The first part below deals with general aspects of the software (concepts, architecture, etc).

Bugfixes in GSVideo

A new release of gsvideo (0.5.1) that I uploaded today to sourceforge solves a bug in the recenlty added GSMovieMaker, which prevented to write frames to a movie file while playing another movie. This has been solved by including an updated version of gstreamer-java (the underlying bindings that allow Processing to communicate with GStreamer).

New GLGraphics introduces model and camera objects

Release 0.9 of GLGraphics (which is available for download at sourceforge) finally implements a few new features that I wanted to add to the library for a long time:

• a GLModel class to store 3D objects (including normals, color and texture information).
• a GLCamera class for OpenGL-accelerated viewport transformations.
• fast texture loading in the GLTexture class.