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Handy

 

Hand-drawn sketchy rendering in Processing.

The Handy library allows you to produce graphics with a hand-drawn appearance in Processing sketches. This can be customised to produce a variety of styles including pencil, watercolour and ink and marker pen appearance.

Download

 

Current release - handy.zip V. 1..0 (30th January, 2012).

Source code - available from github along with latest pre-release updates.


Installation

in Processing 3 - use the contributed library manager within Processing to install the library

 


Documentation

Getting started - See using the Handy renderer to get going.

 
 

Reference - Detailed information about the Handy classes in the API reference, which is also included in 'reference' folder of the library.

Theory - Sketchy rendering for information visualization. Paper on the design and effects of sketchy rendering with Handy.


Gallery

Examples of handy rendering

 

Technicalia

Platform - MacOS X, Windows, Linux

Processing - Compatible with versions 1.5.x to 2.x

 

Dependencies - None. 

Keywords - illustrative visualization; non-photorealistic rendering; sketching. 


Contact

For queries about the library see the Processing forum or email us: gicentre 'at' soi.city.ac.uk