Monday, August 10, 2009

Release of Data Origami Library 0.002

The Data Origami Library has been updated. The image class now supports the following objects:
  • Orienting the camera by using a lookAt and lookFrom location
  • Blocks defined by opposing corners
  • Cylinders defined by end locations
  • Spheres
  • Text boxes

An issue with shading was corrected. The library now generates shadows correctly.

The library can be downloaded here.

The image above was generated by the test script here.

2 comments:

  1. Hallo,
    In your title I see Origami, in what sence does is the library (very nice!) connected with paper-folding
    Greetings
    Peter

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  2. Peter,
    In origami, a flat piece of paper is translated, via a standard set of folds, into a rich paper sculpture. This is done without changing the underlying piece of paper. One of my goals with this library is to build a standard set of tools for transforming data into rich representations. My goal with this blog is to both build a library and explore data sets I've found interesting. The relationship between the library and origami is the similarity in transforming something simple into something rich without changing the underlying thing: paper for origami, data for this library.

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