Thomas Diewald is a prolific graphics programmer in Java, Javascript, OpenGL/WebGL, GLSL, OpenCL, C++, C. He has developed a number of libraries for vanilla processing, and we explore their use in JRubyArt and propane (actually we barely scratch the surface) in this and in recent previous posts, but hope that we can provide inspiration for others to follow.

PixelFlow library

A Processing/Java library for high performance GPU-Computing (GLSL). See PixelFlow library on github and the PixelFlow website.

Here an example sketch translated for JRubyArt for the sketch to run you need install the PixelFlow libraries using the processing ide, I suppose there could be a possibility of a gem like toxiclibs. This example demonstrates how to create an anonymous class instance in JRuby that implements an abstract java class:-

#
# PixelFlow | Copyright (C) 2016 Thomas Diewald - http://thomasdiewald.com
# Translated to RubyArt by Martin Prout
# A Processing/Java library for high performance GPU-Computing (GLSL).
# MIT License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
#

load_library :PixelFlow
java_import 'com.thomasdiewald.pixelflow.java.sampling.PoissonSample'
java_import 'com.thomasdiewald.pixelflow.java.sampling.PoissonDiscSamping2D'
attr_reader :samples, :display_radius

def settings
  size(1280, 720, P2D)
  smooth(16)
end

def setup
  sketch_title 'Poisson Sampling 2D'
  @display_radius = true
  generate_poisson_sampling2d
end

def generate_poisson_sampling2d
  # create an anonymous class instance in JRuby that implements the java
  # abstract class PoissonDiscSamping2D
  pds = Class.new(PoissonDiscSamping2D) do
    def newInstance(x, y, r, rcollision)
      PoissonSample.new(x, y, r, rcollision)
    end
  end.new
  bounds = [0, 0, 0, width, height, 0]
  rmin = 2
  rmax = 25
  roff = 0.5
  new_points = 100
  start = Time.now
  pds.setRandomSeed(rand(0..10_0000))
  pds.generatePoissonSampling2D(bounds, rmin, rmax, roff, new_points)
  @samples = pds.samples
  time = Time.now - start
  puts("poisson samples 2D generated")
  puts("    time: #{(time * 1000).floor}ms")
  puts("    count: #{samples.size}")
end

def draw
  background(64)
  samples.each do |sample|
    px = sample.x
    py = sample.y
    pr = sample.rad
    if display_radius
      stroke(255)
      stroke_weight(0.5)
      fill(255)
      no_stroke
      ellipse(px, py, pr * 2, pr * 2)
    else
      stroke(255)
      stroke_weight(2)
      point(px, py)
    end
  end
end

def key_released
  case key
  when ' '
    @display_radius = !display_radius
  when 'r'
    generate_poisson_sampling2d
  end
end

snapshot of the running sketch from atom