I’m participating in a workshop on Site Specific Architecture and Emergent Design at Snøhetta architects, Oslo. There have been presentations by myself, Søren Sørensen (AHO), Terje Johnsen (IFE), Andreas Eggertsen (Snøhetta) and Alexander Hellervik (Snøhetta).

Søren and Terje presented some interesting projects using Augmented Reality (AR) in architectural visualization. See architect.no for more information and images.

Relevant links / inspiration

• theverymany (blog)
• Designed Objects (blog)
• Material Systems (blog)
• EZCT (architecture & design research)
• Stylianos Dritsas (Rhino3D scripting)
• Digital fabrication (blog)
• Resarch (blog)
• Lionel Theodore Dean: FutureFactories
• Krets
• Pablo Miranda Carranza

No, I’m not talking about Christmas ornaments. I just came up with a quick hack to turn off the window frame from inside Processing. See this thread on the Processing forums to know why this is useful.

When running in the IDE the sketch runs as an applet, so it can’t use the “–present” command line switches available to applications because init() is called instead of main(). My hack simply overrides the default init(), sets the frame to be undecorated and then calls the regular PApplet.init().

Update: Setting the location of the window needs to happen in setup(), not init().

import processing.opengl.*;

void setup(){
  size(400,400,OPENGL);
  background(0);
  frame.setLocation(0,0); // needs to be in setup(), not init()
}

void draw(){
  stroke(255);
  line(0,0,200,200);
}  

public void init() {
  frame.setUndecorated(true); // works.

  // call PApplet.init() to take care of business
  super.init();
}