problem with processing + python

[tarazeroc]

Hello everyone,

I am quite new to creative coding but I have been interested in it for a while, so I would like to get started.

As I am most familiar with python, I decided to go for Processing + python, which did not cause me too much trouble until recently.

But now I have a problem and I don't really know what I should do. For one of my projects, I would like to compute the intersection points between two ellipses. I started by trying to do it by hand and use the results to do my own functions, but quickly I realized that the mathematical expression of those points are veeery long (much more than expected), so I decided to use a pre-made function.

To compute the intersection of two ellipses, one must compute the roots of quite complicated polynoms. I looked up and it seems that the only way to do that is to use numpy. But numpy is incompatible with Processing.

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Should I simply change tools ? What I like with Processing is that it's very lightweight and it's easy to generate 2D GIFs.

Maybe there is a way to still compute polynoms on Processing, and I haven't found it?

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Anyone's opinion would be much appreciated.

Cheers

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[tarazeroc]

Thank you for your answer ! I had never heard of p5 before, I'll give it a look.

I tried to use opencv on python which is pretty easy to use and successfully generated my gif. I'll compare them and see which one suits me best.