During the last months i was working a lot on Java Swing components which really is a lot of fun. It took me some time to establish a workflow to transfer my design prototypes from Adobe Fireworks into Java2D elements.
With not too complex shapes this was not a big deal even if it was a lot of coding (see also Drawing in code part I and Drawing in code part II) but during the work on my current component (which will be a combination of weather and time of day display for different cities) i needed to create clouds…
Did you ever create clouds in vector programs ? It’s really not so easy if they should look nice and you will need a lot of ellipses in different sizes to get a result which looks not too bad.
After creating my first cloud out of 49 circles (all the same size) i figured out that it would take a looooooooong time to complete these clouds. weiterlesen