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require 'ruby-processing'

class PyramidUsingBeginshape < Processing::App

  def setup
    render_mode P3D
  end

  def draw
    background 255
    stroke 0

    # The pyramid's vertices are drawn relative to a centerpoint.
    # Therefore, we call translate to place the pyramid properly in the window.
    # A slightly better option might be to include the translate in the draw_pyramid function and pass in x,y,z as arguments
    translate 100, 100, 0 
    draw_pyramid 150
  end


  # The function sets the vertices for the pyramid around the centerpoint at a flexible distance, 
  # depending on the number passed in as an argument.
  def draw_pyramid(t)
    # this pyramid has 4 sides, each drawn as a separate triangle
    # each side has 3 vertices, making up a triangle shape
    # the parameter " t " determines the size of the pyramid
    begin_shape TRIANGLES

    fill 255, 150 # Note that each polygon can have its own color.
    vertex -t,-t,-t
    vertex  t,-t,-t
    vertex  0, 0, t

    fill 150, 150
    vertex  t,-t,-t
    vertex  t, t,-t
    vertex  0, 0, t

    fill 255, 150
    vertex  t, t,-t
    vertex -t, t,-t
    vertex  0, 0, t

    fill 150, 150
    vertex -t, t,-t
    vertex -t,-t,-t
    vertex  0, 0, t

    end_shape 
  end

end

PyramidUsingBeginshape.new :title => "Draw Pyramid Using BeginShape",  :width => 200,  :height => 200

Version data entries

4 entries across 4 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
ruby-processing-1.0.1	samples/learning_processing/chapter_14/04_pyramid_using_beingshape.rb
ruby-processing-1.0.2	samples/learning_processing/chapter_14/04_pyramid_using_beingshape.rb
ruby-processing-1.0.4	samples/learning_processing/chapter_14/04_pyramid_using_beingshape.rb
ruby-processing-1.0.3	samples/learning_processing/chapter_14/04_pyramid_using_beingshape.rb