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Well I am now able to plot the points through the Z axis! Sweet.

Some may argue that the points are too erratic to be used, however, this is nothing that I can’t take care of in Rhino with a Scale1D function. Alls good.

So now all that is left is to get the current frame and all those preceding to export into the DXF file. For some reason I have a hunch it has to do with the background() call and where it is located in the script. I messed with the colors so you can see depth a bit. I really would love it if the spectrum dictated the stroke color as it gets higher, but one thing at a time.

Next up is the frame export, but beyond that, I’d also really like to know how to create the surface w/in the processing environment all at one. hmmm…suggestions?

The only bad part is now I am obsessing about code. Really interesting possibilities. I tweeted(@sirgabe)  today about a person(s) that is selling laser cut jewelry that is generated dynamically through a processing function. Really pretty stuff. You can see it here.

~G

Well, I must say I knew that learning how to code from pretty much scratch wasn’t going to be easy. However, when I downloaded Processing from Processing.org. The tutorials on the site are pretty generous and informative. It seems as though there is a really supportive community of designers, interactive specialists, artists, and makers of all sorts. I am liking my experience so far.

The first ‘Hello World’ tutorial I did came out as expected. (below)

It is a simple draw() function that redraws from 0,0 as the program recycles. I could revise the background() command into the draw() block to have it be just a simple line that follows the mouse, but to be completely honest, I’m in a rush to be interesting with this.

I have to give yet another shout out to Robert Hodgin for his amazing projects and inspiration to take this on. As I know he is a busy guy heading up ,with Bill Lindmeier, Tbe Barbarian Group , any of the communication he was able to give me was priceless. Good people.

Anywhos, I feel like an outsider coming into this stuff. My talent lies in stating commands through direct physical representation of my intents. What I am trying to tackle is very much a metadata session. Equate it to a scientist turning into a philosopher. I think I am going to get much more than an application that generates surface out of this. Moreover, I will get a great learning experience out of it as well.

Here’s to being autodidactic.

~G

Quick note-I’m looking for someone to collaberate with locally designing a stand alone application that can take audio equalizer data and export it as either point data or surface data.

Let me know if you know anybody that might know how to accomplish this.

Thanks.

~G