Suggestion of a function to get screen coordinates about p5.js HOT 14 OPEN

After I came up with the idea, I lost motivation, so I closed it.
I'll leave it up to contributors to decide what to do with this discussion. Personally, I think it would be nice to have a function that simply returns screen coordinates and depth values ​​for 3D coordinates.

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Personally, I think it would be nice to have a function that simply returns screen coordinates and depth values ​​for 3D coordinates.

I too agree to this , it would be nice to have such a function.
Just a suggestion ,
How about naming the function worldToScreen(coord) ?
This name is descriptive and indicates that the function converts 3D world coordinates to 2D screen coordinates.

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Having a function like this will help contributors create new methods, like I did in #6116. I also think it is useful because it can be used to place visual information in 3D space.

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I think this could make sense to add, anecdotally it's probably the question I've been asked the most about p5, although not exclusively to WebGL, so 2D mode could feasibly implement something like this too.

@limzykenneth any thoughts on naming? Flash used to have methods like localToGlobal(coord) and globalToLocal(coord), for inspiration.

(Also, I reopened the issue, was it intended to be closed?)

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FYI - I brought up this issue with @bohnacker years ago (while attempting to port a Processing lib to p5.js that depended on screenX/Y/Z) and they came up with the following solution (I'm not sure if it's been submitted for the upcoming new website (of which all existing ones should be auto-ported incase authors didn't see message to submit) – would of course be great to have them built in!

https://github.com/bohnacker/p5js-screenPosition

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