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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.

TheorySketchy 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