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