Drawing in Jitter

[samwsd]

Hi.
I've got a video input stream. I approximated this video stream and saved the average colour values for each area in a matrix. Based on this matrix I'd like to draw and simply animate some objects, but I don't know how.

First of all: which functions are useful for drawing? Should I use the graphic window and the oval//ring/rect/frame objects? Or is this normally done with jit.gl... (OpenGL)? I found those two options yet, but I'm not sure what to use.

Furthermore I didn't find an example/a tutorial, which would teach me how to read values out of a matrix and use them for drawing simple 2d-objects in the next step. Can somebody please give me an advice how that works, where to find information about this or what I should search for?

Thanks in advance,
Sam

[KillingFrenzy]

Well, the first place to ask Jitter questions is the Jitter forum on the Cycling 74' site.... but they can be a bit rough on beginners.
Read those tutorials.

For what you're trying to do, the 2d/software answer is jit.lcd
This is the basic object for drawing shapes/lines/fields of color.
jit.gl.sketch is the analog in OpenGL/Hardware rendering land.
From there, you can look at the other gl objects.

look at the tutorials around LCD and jit.gl.render and that will get you started.

[Excalibas]

Also see the Jitter Recipes Books, there are some great paches where you can find fun ideas.


http://www.cycling74.com/story/2006/2/14/161736/108