Using the hand drawn style kills FPS performance

C-Kenny / music-visualizer-4-friend

Music Visualizer, written in Processing 3

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Using the hand drawn style kills FPS performance #3

Closed C-Kenny closed 5 years ago

C-Kenny commented 5 years ago

The hand drawn style provided by the Handy library, creates a less formal style of the visualizer. We've noticed that when this option is toggled on, frame rate performance drops.

To investigate:

Do we have to perform the calculations on each frame
Can we get away with more "loose" edges, and less demanding stressful operations per line drawn.

Currently 'h' will toggle on the hand drawn style.

C-Kenny commented 5 years ago

Adding println(frameRate); we can get an idea of the frame rate. It varies between 20 + 40 fps, we're aiming for >60 fps so that it runs smoothly.

I've noticed that adding the "colour fill" drops the median frame rate from 60 -> 40 which seems extreme. Best to investigate.