Adding some items to an OpenGL figure using a vertex buffer is difficult. Text is one example, if you don’t want it just across the screen. You can use the OpenGL widget as a simple 2D canvas, but you might want to rotate it around the y-axis for example and add varying depth to it …
Drawing and painting a 3D image with GL – the Graphic Library – is not as trivial as doing the same on a 2D canvas: no 3D versions of the 2D canvas drawing methods are defined in GL classes. Instead, programs written with GL send data to the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit), and directions for …
Qt allows you to develop a multi-platform application, that you can develop a GUI application on one platform and deploy to many others (if you avoid system-specific extra modules). Qt contains modules for creating widgets from elementary ones to OpenGL 3D, which I will discuss later. In addition it contains module with other functionalities an …
The other day, I participated in a discussion on GimpNet IRC (irc://irc.gimp.org). I saw there a message in which some words were colored. Since my client is Pidgin, I cannot add colors simply by clicking on the Font button, and selecting a color: all the menu options are disabled. Searching the web for IRC colors, …
The other day, I was invited to a zoom meeting. Zoom is a video conference application also available for computers. It’s address is https://zoom.us. When the time of our meeting came, I couldn’t hear anything when connecting from my Firefox browser, and saw the following message: . After a short IRC conversation on #freebsd@freenode.org, I …
Having upgraded my FreeBSD system and VirtualBox, I found that VirtualBox does not work when invoked from the window manager’s menu. So, I tried running it from the command line, and got the following message: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: Undefined symbol “_ZNK6QColor6darkerEi@Qt_5” I tried to search the web for the cause, and found a link to a compatibility …
Matplotlib is a great python library for plotting and graphics. Graphics include formatted text, text paths and tabular data. Mathematical expressions are a good reason to use Matplotlib for rendering text. Matplotlib also supports some widgets one can use for input. If you use Matplotlib widgets, you vetter know how to size and position them …
I recently installed VirtualBox configured internet connection to the internet for a virtual windows 7 machine I’ve installed using Vagrant, tried to setup USB, but got the following message: “Failed to save settings – Empty or null HostOnly interface name is not valid.”. Looking at the details, I saw the following “Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005) …
HTML5 includes some features that allows developers to draw 3D shapes by drawing bi dimensional shapes and applying 3d transform, such as rotateX, rotateY and rotateZ. For convenience, you can shift the origin of axes using the style property If you don’t want the 3D image too flat (for example, all the faces of a …
Some days ago I found that someone was looking for a D3.js expert. To prove one is an expert one has to pass a test, and one of the tasks on this test is to create a 3D color picker with RGB for axes. The cube faces cannot be filled with a bi-dimensional linear gradients …
