The last article I wrote for OCI's online newsletter Java News Brief (JNB) was Six JDK Classes You Think You Know, which several readers have told me was fun. That was the last article in the JNB series. The following month, the series began its publication under the new name Software Engineering Tech Trend (SETT), with an expanded scope covering a broader array of software engineering topics. Here's a sample of the articles that was published in SETT in the last year and a half:
In this months SETT article, Experiments With JavaFX 3D Scenes, I show you one aspect of JavaFX, its 3D scenes support, through a set of experiments that go from simple animated squares moving along straight lines to an animated formation of a tetrahedron in 3D. I was hoping to show you an animation of a dodecahedron being formed from a stack of pentagons,but I ran out of time for the article and have to settle for a tetrahedron there.
I did, however, finish an animated dodecahedron after I submitted the article. And here is how it goes:
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