Apologies in advanced for my lack of experience in Java programming. I'm trying to create a profile generator for drawing the 2D outline of a gear as a polygon of many points, and am looking for a means of storing this profile in a DXF format. Currently, I've been using the program, OpenSCAD, to generate the profile using an iterative method, and it comes with the option of exporting 2D geometry as DXFs. The results are decent, but the program lacks the proper programming language to work with more complex gear profiles; this is why I want to use Java (the programming language I'm most to grips with) to generate the gear profile. The problem is, I'm neither familiar enough with Java nor DXFs to know how to use the former to create the latter! I reckon however that if OpenSCAD, or even Dr. Rainer Hessmer's gear generator can create their own DXF files, why can't Java. I've passively picked up that a DXF file is much like a text file, so if there exists an approach similar to writing a text file in Java, that would be the most preferred option.
Many thanks and I appreciate any help.
Why not use Java to generate OpenSCAD code (as a text file) which can generate the gears? There a a fair number of tools which use Python to do this.
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I've been learning Java for a month now. I've already managed to code some very simple stuff like prime number generator and a simple calculator. Now i'd love to try working on something more complex.
Here's my idea - I'd love to make a program that can copy pictures from SD card or USB with a single click (something that my parents can use very easily to copy all their photos to a folder without my help)
I was brainstorming quite a bit about it and before i start i want to ask following questions:
1. Are there any inbuilt Java methods that can help me with the following task?
2. What are the other (non-beginner) Java features that i'd need to read about?
I want to start it from the scratch, make it simple at first and progressively add more features to practice and learn some more.
Any pointers or tips much appreciated.
I'd suggest doing this as a script. The script can invoke java if you'd like to improve your java skills. However, scripting languages can also copy/move files very easily. If you choose java, read about file I/O, reading files, writing files, etc.
Here's a link for windows. Not sure what your operating system is, but you could create an executable script on mac, linux, etc.
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Batch-File
I want to create a .dst embroidery file using Java. Are there any supporting libraries available? Or is it possible to convert any kind of image file to the .dst embroidery file format using Java?
Can anyone suggest any algorithms, encoding-decoding methods, etc?
I am the developer at Embroidermodder working on formats (the link mentioned by theJollySin).
I don't have any Java code, but I can point you to some preliminary documentation of the format (http://www.achatina.de/sewing/main/TECHNICL.HTM).
What are you trying to create in DST? I can assist you with whatever issues you have getting your Java code running.
The short answer to your question is, no. There are currently no popular libraries for generating .dst embroidery files with Java. My guess is that you will have a lot more luck trying to convert other file types to the .dst formats. The only option there (that I know of) is Corel Draw.
In the end, the best solution I can think of is to use the Tajima Ambaasador website. You have to register, but I believe most of their design/DST services are free.
(After some searching around online I also found this website, which has some more free software and seems like the best place to start if you're looking for information.)
Yes. I've written exactly such a library for python (pyembroidery) and trancoded that to java. It will work for both Android and Oracle Java and has fully fleshed out reading and writing of most major embroidery formats.
https://github.com/EmbroidePy/EmbroideryIO
As part of a parallel project I've also done a considerable amount of work documenting various formats for a wiki on the topic. Located here:
https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Embroidery_format
Which also has all the known technical details for DST file formats:
https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Embroidery_format_DST
As for the second part of the question, embroidery files are vector-like files which provides a series of commands to be issued to an embroidery machine. You cannot directly convert raster-based image files to embroidery because the pixel information does not directly convert to any sort of embroidery machine command instruction structure.
I really want to start doing a tile game, and I've started Cocos2d because of the popularity of it and the availability of tutorials and resources.
But I really want to try out some procedural map generation, but unsure if Cocos2d is the one for it.
If it comes to it and Cocos2d isn't best for this then my other options are Java or Love2D, this isn't iOS but oh well!
Because Cocos2D loads map files from an external source, what you want to do is write some code to generate a map file using the syntax described in this manual page, save the generated map file, then load it using Cocos2D's tiledMapWithTMXFile function (more information here)
for more information on writing a proccedural map generation algorithm, the Procedural Content Generation Wiki is a great resource.
A tutorial on procedurally generated caves, but it could work for top down maps and what not.
http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/cave-levels-cellular-automata--gamedev-9664
So Here is the situation.
I have a video that contain some objects that moves (contract to be more accurate),
I'm trying to write a code to calculate these movements in matter of
Frequency of movements (how many contractions per minute)
How far does the contraction goes in mm.
How can this be done ?? :D!
I use Matlab now to to blot amplitude difference between each frame but its not giving very nice results so far.. (very buggy)
Any tips ? language i should use best, or is there already something exist that can compare different images and plot difference ?
Thanks
You should try Processing using one of these libraries.
Keywords to search for: Blob detection, Computer Vision
The best library for tracking moving objects is OpenCV, which can be used from within Processing, too. Tracking faces for example works like a charm there, but for more abstract shapes you should try another library like BlobDetection!
OpenCV is a great library if you plan to write into C/C++ (or wrapped into JavaCV if you prefer Java). Matlab is a great tool too, especially if you are working on a proof of concept you may want to work with something more friendly and "lighthearted" than C.
If you plan to measure positions or distances I suggest you to use some calibration toolbox to consider intrinsic/extrinsic parameters and eventually camera defects, it will give you more precise results. It is builtin into OpenCV, or take a look here if you plan to use Matlab.
so i'm not expert on this but if you want write something in php you probably would use gd library or imagemagick library also imagemagick utility on linux contains some comparing tool according this http://www.imagemagick.org/script/compare.php
So I'm not 100% sure if it's possible, but what I'd like to do is take a model that someone has created for a game, say in Blender or something similar, in various formats, and from that create an image to show on a website.
Are there any Java libraries around that could help me with that? Java3D maybe? Or even something in Flash? Ideally you'd be able to rotate the model in some embedded flash app, but I'd settle for a plain old image.
It depends on how far you want to go. Most models are going to be in a standard format- or can easily be converted to be - and most 3D Apis are able to load these formats in.
It would be a little unusual to do this on a server - you may even need to have OpenGL installed on it - but it should be quite easy to load a model in to a 3D environment and take a snapshot or a series of snapshots quite easily. Possibly even use these to create a short video clip of a complete turn around the model. If you're using Java take a look at some of the things people are working on over at http://www.javagaming.org/ - I don't know that Java3D is in use much still but there are other good 3D java environments around. JMonkeyEngine looked most interesting last time I was exploring that area.
Alternatively you probably can set up a way of loading the model into a clientside environment - I don't know if Flash can do 3D stuff now, but Shockwave certainly can ( although it's horrible to work with ) and I believe the Silverlight stuff likewise. Of course unless you are pregenerating your animations you are likely to be passing the model to your display logic on the client and a savvy user could intercept that, but the risk is probably reasonably low and from your question it's not clear whether that would be a problem to you.
Take a look into this post:
http://techblog.floorplanner.com/2010/01/25/introducing-asblender/
"Enter ASBlender, a library I slapped together in a few days to read Blender’s .blend file format and parse it to AS3."
lucky you! ;)
EDIT: added link for the project:
http://github.com/timknip/asblender
EDIT2: With the asblender library you can parse directly the .blend file (this is the working file, not a exported file format). Once you have the file inside the flash application you can use Papervision (I believe you do the same with other 3d libraries) to render the model, this way you can do a single image of the model or you can let user to see the model rotating. Beware that any of this libraries won't give the same render quality that a 3D application like blender is capable of. The good thing about this library is the capability of reading all the info in the scene, so you can match cameras and lights to be as close as possible to the original .blend file.
Alternatively there are also other parsers like Ase, Collada , DAE, KMZ, Max3DS, MD2, Sketchup, SketchupCollada... all of this inside papervision library.