Project 1 - Reflection

From project 1 - wallpaper design I have learned a little bit about coding. I've learned how to use the alpha code to control and manipulate opacity and the limitations/advantages of the pattern-maker code. The pattern-maker code is helpful to repeat designs so that there are consistent patterns being made but the limitation is that when you introduce the opacity in it, layers will darken ONLY when the overlap, which, in my case worked for the best, but it was still something that I couldn't get around (to make the entire wallpaper design darken with the same level).

There are still many more things out there that you can do with coding. At Fridays tutorial, our tutor showed us an application where he created a simple animation with clouds moving in the air and grass blowing in the wind; when you move the cursor it controls the direction of the wind.

My goal for the next project is to learn about more coding that explores the concept of animation and apply them to processing to get a concrete understanding.

Project 1

Project One: Wallpaper work is under "P1 - Wallpaper" tab on silver trip (above)

Alpha

After the lecture on Tuesday, and going through a few other works on openprocessor that did a similar thing, I looked at "Random Circles Squares" by Ben Chapman and experimented with the code to produce these:

 

I'm still trying to incorporate colour into it, so far its not working because I came up with these little buggers:

 

But for some reason the one with the colour has a more faded appearance than the other ones which I liked.

Doodle 3 by Bitcraft

On openprocessing.org (studio 2) there was a application that I liked, it was doodle 3 by bitcraft and its where you "move your mouse to make lines grow", you can also change the colour mode using 'c' to switch onto colour mode (crayons).

The code looked very complex so inevitably there wasn't much I could understand. The few things I could understand was that:

 "dodge = true;" causes the lines to "grow" when you move the mouse over the screen but if you change it to "dodge = false;" then all the lines will start "growing" regardless of where your mouse is so that the whole picture is moving by itself.

"float speed = 0.06;" was originally some other number (can't remember what) but the lower the number I put in, the shorter and the slower the lines move. If the number is too small like 0.0009 and you change the dogde back to true, then when you move your mouse onto the screen of the image and leave it there [it takes awhile] but it looks like stars are appearing (if your in colour mode).

HSB is the colour mode used, but if you change it to RGB it doesn't look very flattering. When I changed it to RGB the colour was very distorted looking and limited (or maybe that was after I messed about with a few more bits of the code).

There was also some part of the code where if you've messed enough with it, you can cause the lines to become rougher and not as curvy as it once was. I'm not sure which part it was but this is what it looks like [after I changed a few numbers here and there]

[took screen shots] colour mode:

black and white mode:

Questions/queries:

I want to know what "boolean crayons, soft" means. Especially the crayon part, I googled it and couldn't find what it meant.

Sketches on OpenProcessing

During studio one, after playing around with code there were a few sketches that I liked. These came from messing with the code that controls colour:

Lesson One: DSDN142

01-03-11 Tuesday

On our first lecture for DSDN142 we were asked to create a piece 'code' and give it the person next to us. My parnter followed it and got the picture I imagined and I... was close to getting hers. It took a lot of doodling to acturally get a simple picture in my head. So I came with this because the sideshow showed circles:

The lecturer explained and demonstrated the system of algorithm insinuating that creating a piece of code was all about creating instructions. I think I liked the lecture. More interesting than the others anyways.

After the lecture I went to the studio/tutorial/lab (I've lost track of what they call it now) and (one of the tutors was the guy who did that awesome thing with mind waves and the awesomeness of colour...) they showed us the programme openproccessor. Actually a lot of into was said (can't say I remember everything). Then when they asked us to create a piece of code and construct an image I got baffled. In a totally unimaginative-zone at the moment. But then I decided to use that picture I drew and for a staggering hour mananged to recreate it (with a headache after making so many irritating calculations - I. Hate. Maths), messed with some code which gives colour and hey presto. Something came up. Yay.

Make a blog she says. Whats a blog...

04-03-11 Friday

Second studio/tutorial/lab thingy. We made a blog (btw this is my third one I've made because I can't remember the url to my previous ones or the gmail accounts I made meaning = this is also my second/third gmail account. I'm quite useless says my sister xp)

As for the picture... I don't have one. I left pretty much everything apart from the essentials back at home aka Dunedin so I had to draw (yeah its probably crap) myself. That was... hard. ish. But it'll do until I get some actual photos in the next few days. Don't laugh at it... okay laugh at it. No really, don't.