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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting ready

Raspberry Pi must be directly connected to a display, either via the HDMI or an analog video output. The 3D graphics rendered by the GPU will only be displayed on a local display, even if you are connecting to Raspberry Pi remotely over a network. You will also need to use a locally connected mouse for control (however, keyboard control does work via a SSH connection).

The first time we use pi3d, we will need to download and install it via the following steps:

  1. The pi3d library uses Pillow, a version of the Python Imaging Library that is compatible with Python 3, to import graphics used in models (such as textures and backgrounds).

The installation of Pillow has been covered in the Getting ready section of Chapter 3, Using ...

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