Shapes that go off the drawing area no longer cause long joining lines when they re-appear.

PictureFrame now crops the vector art.

DisplayMachine.pde

@@ -519,21 +519,34 @@ class DisplayMachine extends Machine
       {
         if (pointPaths[i] != null) 
         {
-          beginShape();
+          boolean inShape = false;
           for (int j = 0; j<pointPaths[i].length; j++)
           {
             PVector p = new PVector(pointPaths[i][j].x, pointPaths[i][j].y);
             p = PVector.mult(p, scaling);
             p = PVector.add(p, position);
-            if (getPage().surrounds(inSteps(p)))
+            if (getPictureFrame().surrounds(inSteps(p)))
             {
+              if (!inShape) 
+              {
+                beginShape();
+                inShape = true;
+              }
               p = scaleToScreen(p);
               stroke(strokeColour);
               vertex(p.x, p.y);
               //ellipse(p.x, p.y, 3, 3);
             }
+            else
+            {
+              if (inShape) 
+              {
+                endShape();
+                inShape = false;
+              }
+            }
           }
-          endShape();
+          if (inShape) endShape();
         }
       }
       if (drawCentroid)

drawing.pde

@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ void sendVectorShapes(RShape vec, float scaling, PVector position, int pathSorti
   String command = "";
   PVector lastPoint = new PVector();
   boolean liftToGetToNewPoint = true;
-
+  
   // go through and get each path
   for (int i = 0; i<pointPaths.length; i++)
   {
@@ -684,35 +684,38 @@ void sendVectorShapes(RShape vec, float scaling, PVector position, int pathSorti
 
       if (pointPaths[i].length > pathLengthHighPassCutoff)
       {
-        List<PVector> filteredPoints = filterPoints(pointPaths[i], VECTOR_FILTER_LOW_PASS, minimumVectorLineLength, scaling, position);
+        List<List<PVector>> filteredPaths = filterPoints(pointPaths[i], VECTOR_FILTER_LOW_PASS, minimumVectorLineLength, scaling, position);
-        if (!filteredPoints.isEmpty())
+        for (List<PVector> filteredPoints : filteredPaths)
         {
-          // draw the first one with a pen up and down to get to it
+          if (!filteredPoints.isEmpty())
-          PVector p = filteredPoints.get(0);
-          if ( p.x == lastPoint.x && p.y == lastPoint.y )
-            liftToGetToNewPoint = false;
-          else
-            liftToGetToNewPoint = true;
-
-          // pen UP! (IF THE NEW POINT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE LAST ONE!)
-          if (liftToGetToNewPoint)
-            addToCommandQueue(CMD_PENUP+"END");
-          // move to this point and put the pen down
-          command = CMD_CHANGELENGTHDIRECT+(int)p.x+","+(int)p.y+","+getMaxSegmentLength()+",END";
-          addToCommandQueue(command);
-          if (liftToGetToNewPoint)
-            addToCommandQueue(CMD_PENDOWN+"END");
-
-
-
-          // then just iterate through the rest
-          for (int j=1; j<filteredPoints.size(); j++)
           {
-            p = filteredPoints.get(j);
+            // draw the first one with a pen up and down to get to it
+            PVector p = filteredPoints.get(0);
+            if ( p.x == lastPoint.x && p.y == lastPoint.y )
+              liftToGetToNewPoint = false;
+            else
+              liftToGetToNewPoint = true;
+  
+            // pen UP! (IF THE NEW POINT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE LAST ONE!)
+            if (liftToGetToNewPoint)
+              addToCommandQueue(CMD_PENUP+"END");
+            // move to this point and put the pen down
             command = CMD_CHANGELENGTHDIRECT+(int)p.x+","+(int)p.y+","+getMaxSegmentLength()+",END";
             addToCommandQueue(command);
+            if (liftToGetToNewPoint)
+              addToCommandQueue(CMD_PENDOWN+"END");
+  
+  
+  
+            // then just iterate through the rest
+            for (int j=1; j<filteredPoints.size(); j++)
+            {
+              p = filteredPoints.get(j);
+              command = CMD_CHANGELENGTHDIRECT+(int)p.x+","+(int)p.y+","+getMaxSegmentLength()+",END";
+              addToCommandQueue(command);
+            }
+            lastPoint = new PVector(p.x, p.y);
           }
-          lastPoint = new PVector(p.x, p.y);
         }
       }
     }
@@ -876,17 +879,18 @@ List<RPoint[]> removeShortPaths(List<RPoint[]> list, int cutoff)
   return list;
 }  
 
-List<PVector> filterPoints(RPoint[] points, int filterToUse, long filterParam, float scaling, PVector position)
+List<List<PVector>> filterPoints(RPoint[] points, int filterToUse, long filterParam, float scaling, PVector position)
 {
   return filterPointsLowPass(points, filterParam, scaling, position);
 }
 
-List<PVector> filterPointsLowPass(RPoint[] points, long filterParam, float scaling, PVector position)
+List<List<PVector>> filterPointsLowPass(RPoint[] points, long filterParam, float scaling, PVector position)
 {
-  List<PVector> result = new ArrayList<PVector>();
+  List<List<PVector>> result = new ArrayList<List<PVector>>();
 
-  // scale and convert all the points first
+  // scale and convert all the points first, and filter them by area.
-  List<PVector> scaled = new ArrayList<PVector>(points.length);
+  List<List<PVector>> areaFiltered = new ArrayList<List<PVector>>();
+  List<PVector> scaledPoints = null;
   for (int j = 0; j<points.length; j++)
   {
     RPoint firstPoint = points[j];
@@ -894,37 +898,64 @@ List<PVector> filterPointsLowPass(RPoint[] points, long filterParam, float scali
     p = PVector.mult(p, scaling);
     p = PVector.add(p, position);
     p = getDisplayMachine().inSteps(p);
-    if (getDisplayMachine().getPage().surrounds(p))
+    
+    // Check if the point is on the drawable area
+    if (getDisplayMachine().getPictureFrame().surrounds(p))
     {
-      p = getDisplayMachine().asNativeCoords(p);
+      if (scaledPoints == null)
-      scaled.add(p);
-    }
-  }
-
-  if (scaled.size() > 1)
-  {
-    PVector p = scaled.get(0);
-    result.add(p);
-
-    for (int j = 1; j<scaled.size(); j++)
-    {
-      p = scaled.get(j);
-      // and even then, only bother drawing if it's a move of over "x" steps
-      int diffx = int(p.x) - int(result.get(result.size()-1).x);
-      int diffy = int(p.y) - int(result.get(result.size()-1).y);
-
-      if (abs(diffx) > filterParam || abs(diffy) > filterParam)
       {
-        //println("Adding point " + p + ", last: " + result.get(result.size()-1));
+        scaledPoints = new ArrayList<PVector>(points.length);
-        result.add(p);
+      }
+      p = getDisplayMachine().asNativeCoords(p);
+      scaledPoints.add(p);
+    }
+    else
+    { // if the point is NOT in the drawable area, then check to see if there is a 
+      // scaledPoints list, and if there is, that means this is the first point in
+      // the current path that is NOT in the drawable area. That is, the line was on
+      // the drawable area, but it's just gone off it.
+      // In this case, append the current list of scaled points into the results list,
+      // and then nullify scaledPoints so it'll be restarted as a new list if a 
+      // subsequent point ends up coming back on the drawable area.
+      if (scaledPoints != null && scaledPoints.size() > 0)
+      {
+        areaFiltered.add(scaledPoints);
+        scaledPoints = null;
       }
     }
   }
 
-  if (result.size() < 2)
-    result.clear();
 
-  //println("finished filter.");
+  // Now filter by length 
+  if (!areaFiltered.isEmpty())
+  {
+    for (List<PVector> filteredPoints : areaFiltered)
+    {
+      List<PVector> lengthFiltered = new ArrayList<PVector>();
+      PVector p = filteredPoints.get(0);
+      lengthFiltered.add(p);
+  
+      for (int j = 1; j<filteredPoints.size(); j++)
+      {
+        p = filteredPoints.get(j);
+        // and even then, only bother drawing if it's a move of over "x" steps
+        int diffx = int(p.x) - int(lengthFiltered.get(lengthFiltered.size()-1).x);
+        int diffy = int(p.y) - int(lengthFiltered.get(lengthFiltered.size()-1).y);
+  
+        if (abs(diffx) > filterParam || abs(diffy) > filterParam)
+        {
+          //println("Adding point " + p + ", last: " + result.get(result.size()-1));
+          lengthFiltered.add(p);
+        }
+      }
+      if (lengthFiltered.size() >= 2)
+      {
+        result.add(lengthFiltered);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  
+  println("finished filter.");
   return result;
 }