3D Text

This is an entry for @sableRaph's weekly creative coding challenge. The theme for this week was "ASCII."

A while ago I tried doing something in OpenFrameworks where I built a model out of extruded text. Knowing I wanted to do some more things like this in the future, I tried recreating the same text extrusion algorithm in p5. It involved copy-and-pasting the existing textToPoints code and making some slight modifications to be able to actually discern which points are on which contour, but it works!

This also uses p5.Framebuffer to create a feedback texture using floating point colors, allowing for a smoother fade out to white without the visual bugs you get when using integer colors for this.