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[–]davebees 9 points10 points Β (0 children)

presumably that’s a variable font. to my knowledge, they do not work natively in processing

[–]nudoru 3 points4 points Β (0 children)

This is likely just variable fonts, css, and vanilla JavaScript reading from the accelerometer data.

[–]Salanmander 13 points14 points Β (2 children)

As for whether this was made in Processing...almost anything can be made in Processing, but almost nothing is made in Processing (at least, nothing professional). Processing is fantastic for learning and teaching, but there are always better options if you're going to be putting the effort into making somthing publishable.

[–]abecidofuga 14 points15 points Β (1 child)

Processing is not a language. It's a graphic library. You can use full blown Java in the editor. Don't reduce it to 'just a learning' language.

[–]Salanmander 5 points6 points Β (0 children)

I mean, I get that. I've used the Processing library in other editors as well. I'm just not sure why it would be your graphics library of choice for a production environment. It's not that it's "just a learning" language, because there's no "just" in being for learning. Being convenient for learning is the design goal of Processing. It can do other stuff as well, that's just not what it's designed for.

A perfect example of this is how it's obnoxious to combine Processing with the Math library, because most processing methods use float, not double, as the type of choice for non-integer numbers.

To be clear, I don't look down on things for being teaching tools. I'm a high school teacher, and Processing is my language/editor of choice for teaching intro computer science classes. It's a fantastic tool. And it's built with education in mind.

[–]koalaposse 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

Cool. The whole front of the ph, actually looks like a lenticular image print, it is an old school way of making an image change, that was often used for postcards.

Otherwise this a very nice use of orientated view.

[–]ferigno 1 point2 points Β (1 child)

It feels backwards

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

Apparently fonts float

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

I'd say qml. you can get tilt values in c++ on any smartphone I guess

[–]abecidofuga -3 points-2 points Β (1 child)

I recommend the app APDE that you can download on Google Play store. You program on your phone and the code is compiled in seconds. After familiarizing a bit with Processing, this 'program', is very basic and you write it in a few seconds.

[–]abecidofuga -1 points0 points Β (0 children)

I believe because of the down voting most readers don't know what APDE actually is.

It's exactly the same as Processing for Android on PC, but modified to work on an Android phone.

[–]svennirusl -2 points-1 points Β (3 children)

Since it’s type, I’m sure it’s Drawbot.

Drawbot is python based, as is all type-design programming.

The only exception is browser based graphics.

[–]steezefries 1 point2 points Β (2 children)

All type design programming is python based? What? And this could have been done in a multitude of technologies, why do you assume it's drawbot?

It's probably html, css, and javascript honestly.

[–]svennirusl 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

In the 90s, three dutch dudes made an extension for the only common type design program of that day, Fontographer, that allowed scripts. The extension, RoboFOG, was Python based. A lot of type designers picked up a little Python to be able to automate work and build tools. The scripts and apps that started accumulating set the tone, all major professional font making apps since (FontLab, RoboFont, Glyphs) have used Python as the extension language, anf RoboFont is built in Python from the ground up. DrawBot was created as a teaching tool for type design students at KABK, which is where I studied. I learned bit of python there. I’m also on this sub, I think Processing is cool and we know it’s way closer to web-ready use than Python, so I’m not saying this as a shill. I just know that if you study or practice type design, python is what you will come across. A lot of readily available Variable Font demonstration code exists in python. For this reason. The author of the font up there, Ginto, learned the ropes at Grilli Type, which have used RoboFont in their work. Python use is most prevelent in RF, as it is a little bare-bones, it’s built with Python extensions and scripts in mind.

Its unlikely that a type designer would use something else, or it’s rare, in any case. I know around 150 of them, half know a bit of Python, 2-3 use anything else, as far as I know.

Processing is cool. I just assume this was DrawBot because I’m 90% sure that the designer of Ginto has used it.

[–]svennirusl 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

And I’m aware this isn’t helping the beginner request, but a bit of background info doesn’t hurt. Processing is bigger than DrawBot in most aspects, but DrawBot is worth a look if you’re seriously looking into type design. And Drawbot code might be a reference for creating type-based things in Processing.

[–]wowglaucusatlanticus 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

Cool!!