The Seven Stages of Big Screens
- Hello World Eclipse!
- A Processing sketch built in Eclipse and shared via CVS
- Hello World 8160x768
- Design a sketch that is 1360x384.
- Bring that sketch to the 3 screen set-up and expand it to 2720x768 on all machines
- Use these tricks to get it full screen: Processing Full Screen Hacks
- Hello World 6 Screens MPE
- This is your first multi-window application. Make something simple that runs locally with two windows, each 320x480 making the total resolution 640x480.
- Adapt the sketch to run first on four screens using MPE. Then go to 6 screens. Do something that makes strong use of the aspect ratio (i.e. anything with horizontal movement is good.) This should be really really really really really simple! Just prove that it works!
- Your 6 Screen Baby
- Make a single screen prototype of your project (keeping it very simple, do not program everything you want, just the basics.)
- Take a single screen prototype of your project and run it on 6 screens using MPE. There should be no real-time data or interaction, this is a prototype that fakes these real time elements.
- It's alive
- Incorporate your real-time data / interaction with your single-screen prototype.
- Incorporate your real-time data / interaction with the 6 screen system. Be highly conscious of the limits of the system!
- Finish it up
- Tweak design and functionality over and over and over again until you are done.
- Show the world!
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