# PCD @ Worldwide 2018

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/pcd-worldwide-2018/1885>\
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**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/pcd-worldwide-2018/1885 "2018-07-18T16:54:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![physicsdavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4491bb/32.png) [@physicsdavid](https://discourse.processing.org/u/physicsdavid)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/pcd-worldwide-2018/1885/18 "2018-09-10T01:02:36Z")

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Hi! I’m David Harris, organiser for PCD Brisbane. I’m a new media artist and I lecture/teach in the interactive media program at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. We use p5.js in a range of classes in both undergraduate and graduate level courses for artists and designers who haven’t coded before. We’re still working out our plans for PCD but I anticipate we’ll have some showcases, some discussion about p5/processing in a university teaching environment, and also talk about additional things we think it would be useful to build for our purposes.

Last year, I built a small set of functions to do 3D object picking in a p5.js canvas because some students wanted to be able to do that and we couldn’t find anything already built. If you’re interested, here it is: [https://github.com/physicsdavid/mPicker](https://github.com/physicsdavid/mPicker) (Note that it’s not well written in any sense nor in a state to try to meld it with any larger body of code, but it did the job for what we needed.) I also had a look at using it to see whether I could get a software paper published on the basis of it being research in the creative arts and did that here: [https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00475](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00475)

Looking forward to the event!

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