i wanted to make a clone of interstellar selfie station since christine love inexplicably pulled off all copies before i could even get to try the non demo version but i only got as far as implementing the drawing routine in Processing which is all done by cpu and runs way too slow using Processing for Android and i couldn't get the android version to look good

but i guess it kinda works if you have a computer with Processing installed, and i made it work on PocketCHIP as well using a USB camera but i really wish i could just make it into an android app

oh well

@squirrel Maybe share the source? Another pair of eyes might see a way to speed it up?

@rainwarrior the problem is it's completely done in cpu because i don't know how to rewrite it in shaders

the basic stuff is here, but it's optimized for the pocketchip: github.com/Lana-chan/chip-proc

@rainwarrior in any case processing is not the way to go to make android apps

@squirrel I didn't even know you could run processing on it so I'm going to have fun trying this out even if I don't succeed at improving anything.

@rainwarrior nvm you meant android, yeah, it's not good and it's not for making apps, and i wanted it to be an app

@squirrel LOL I started to install the requisite android dev stuff but it needed WAY more space than the installer said, ha ha. The installer filled up my hard drive and crashed. :( Currently digging myself out of that hole. My hard drive will be enumerating files for a while...

The gbcamera sketch ran fine on windows at least! Yay!

@squirrel Well a few hours later, gbcamera crashes on my phone :blobpats: but I at least got some stuff to run on it! This is cool.

@rainwarrior i think you need to make adjustments for the sketch to run on android.. let me see if i still have my copy

@rainwarrior i think i lost it all on my last reinstall, didn't bother keeping it since it was fairly useless, but you need specific routines for android to get the camera and stuff

i'd have to read the documentation again..

@squirrel Yeah I tried the other camera examples from the Video library and they all had the same problem.

@squirrel the thing you made!! i love processing, it's how i learned to program

@er1n oh

it's pretty useless and bayer dithering is a secret to nobody but me

@squirrel nooooooo just because you think something is simple for everyone else doesn't make it worthless! i love things like this! little apps that do a nice thing and helped someone learn something

@er1n i don't think i learned anything and i didn't do what i wanted which was to make it a clone of the app christine love made and then pulled out of the app store because i miss it and nobody made a decent clone yet but i don't know how to make android apps that aren't webpages

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