Processing goodness.

Hey :)

Last time I linked to a website of Jared Tarbell, and I've been looking at it for a long time. So I decided to start my own sketches that act a bit similar.

The first one is just an experiment to let 5 dots fly over the landscape and leave a trace. These dots make a circular movement around the middle of sketch. And every step they set a dot, and slowly but surely the screen fills up and and most of the time it creates something nice. (takes about 5 to 10 mintes.)

So I decided to go on with this experiment. But what I really wanted to create are dots that move around the middle of the sketch like there is some sort of gravity. This took some experimenting but eventually it worked. I also decided that they should have some sort of tail, so instead of just a dot it creates some sort of spray.

I really liked this movement so I wanted to see how the dots move according to each other, actually I just wanted to have a cool effect of connecting the lines. So I let every dot see if there is a dot a certain distance away and if it is close enough make a line.

Something that I found out is that what it leaves is really nice to look at, so If you click the sketch it will show something really nice :).

But then I got bored... but Aurora decided to move on and experiment a little further (click this one too!):

She made the dots move almost straight, changed the colours, and the distance when the lines would connect.

So that was the little processing goodness.

Now, you might think that I've forgotten all about Arduino, but fret not! I have a new project in mind inspired by these two:

Noolanders

and

Schergen

So again something toyie, which I already wanted to do but now I might have a cooler Idea! :) So now I need to sketch, make, experiment, find out, burn my fingers and make it better! :D YAY!

cheers!

frank

Longboard, processing, java and ...

Okay,

So first of all I kind of finished my Longboard! Aurora still had this beauty lying around at her parents house:

She told me I could use it to test the longboard until I have some money to buy my own trucks and wheels! So now I just took these:

So I drilled some holes where I thought they needed to be and I screwed on the Back wheels:

and the Front wheels:

So now it was time to test it, First a picture of the longboard as it isn't used, but enjoying it's first sunlight!

So then I had to test it and take pictures of course:

So all in all it kind of worked well. The wheels aren't really good so with one stroke you'll get about 10 meters, but it works well on the tarmac, really smooth. The deck bends a little too much, if you bounce a little the deck can hit the ground.... So I hope Aurora can maybe use it, maybe with some slight adjustments, like making it shorter...

So Now I need to wait till I have some Money and I can buy some wheels!!!! :)

I also progressed with Processing, though not really showable... I learned how to put text in a sketch and how to transform stuff... but I haven't really used it in an experiment, So I'll get back to that.

And I also found the sketch that got me into Processing in the first place:

Sketch site (You can chose the resolution!)

This guy has an awesome collection of sketches that are really good, and he also shows the source code so I hope I will learn a lot from him :)

I also started to learn Java, but again I can't show anything yet since the first Chapter was about why Java was developed, how it works and to make a little program that says "Hello World!" in Command prompt.... So that isn't really something to show off... but maybe later I will be able to show some stuff!

In the last Post I said that I wanted to write down some lessons that I learned about Designing, or which might help me, and to make awesome posters of these.... But I went ahead and I made a poster about this blog. The main thing that I wanted to be able to do with Arduino was to kind of create things that acted or seemed alive. So my first Poster is to remind me about that:

And that was it for this time,

Cheers!

frank