Posted: April 16, 2023

Introduction

After coding Nintendo 64 Java, it inspired me to create a library for drawing 3D images. Originally I just wanted something that could generate animated GIFs, but it now also has the ability to output BMP and AVI. Currently the following features are implemented:

• Draw lines
• Draw rectangles
• Draw triangles
• Triangle 3D rotations
• Triangle vertex shading
• Z buffer
• Alpha channel
• Transparent pixels
• Import BMP/GIF picture and draw simple scaled or scaled with pixel averaging
• Texture mapping (coming soon)

Output

• GIF / animated GIF
• BMP (24 and 8 bit)
• AVI (24 and 8 bit)

Currently there are no depedencies (no external libraries for things like BMP, AVI, GL, etc)... although a fun feature might be a "Video" option that can pull in frames from mp4's and such using libav (ffmpeg) or something. Or maybe also to output to mp4 using libav.

Source Code

Samples

Click to animate:

The cube above is the output of the draw_cube.cxx example program.

Explanation

Coming soon...

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