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Comparing the TriMesh and VboMesh in Cinder   16 August 2014

I’ve been playing around with Cinder trying to make a simple app for drawing isometric images with triangles. I’m still learning my way around OpenGL and the wrapper classes Cinder offers but I like what I’ve seen so far. It’s been a lot of fun doing C++ again after a long time with Ruby and JavaScript.

I kept running into a random segfault when trying to draw anything using the VboMesh so I went looking for some super basic sample code. The closest thing I found was this slightly broken example. So I spent a little time cleaning it up, then got it drawing equilateral triangles:

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I started wondering if I should be using the TriMesh instead, so I decided to try implementing the drawing that way so I could compare the code. It ended up a little cleaner, but since my goal is to have colors change when you touch a triangle, I’ll probably stick with the VboMesh so I can use dynamic colors.

Here’s the code in case it’s helpful for anyone else:

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