Interim Presentation: Storyboard

This would be a very complicated program where I'd have to record a large variety of vocalisations, music, and so forth. It follows on with my favourite wallpaper idea where the text follows your mouse to create nice imagery, except this includes transforming backgrounds, noise, pitches, and so forth. It also enables you to record the song and perhaps save it or at least be able to replay what you did. I may possibly be being a little too ambitious though!

My second idea is fairly self-explanatory. Click image for larger version.

Reflections on Project 1

Concluding our first project, I am happy with my results even though they may not be consistent. I found the project to be a very challenging introduction to the world of Processing, considering my experience with code is very limited. Mostly, I was interested in figuring out what one can and can't do within the confines and parameters of a coding framework.

What I have learnt is to leave illustration and intricacy to the programs designed for such things, and rather, to take advantaged of the abilities of development and code i.e. the maths, the functions, the physics even!

If I were to improve my design, I think I would have perhaps stuck to one idea and expanded from there for a more effective set. So rather than four separate star patterns, just gone with the star mapping or typographic one, for example, and expanded it to fit all the panels.

My goals for our next assignment are to really knuckle down and focus on what is assigned to us, and really envision an application that encompasses the concept of transformation. I will endeavour to post more regularly to my blog with progress, inspiration and so forth to better understand my methods. Also, to allow myself to be freer and more experimental with my coding to see what I can formulate.

Final Wallpapers: Stars

Following our interim presentation, I realised I needed to go on an entirely different path to better understand the benefits of the Processing machine. So I backed off from doing any tedious illustrative work and just perused through the OpenProcessing website to get some ideas. 

I began by experimenting with some interactive code and found I could draw some interesting starfield imagery and thus, decided to stick with some constellationy, nebulae-y, and galactic awesomeness. 

Mapping the stars.

Inspiration for this image was derived from this quote:

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

—	Lawrence M. Krauss

A gas giant is born.

Unfortunately, I am having issues saving them as .pdf's. I shall upload these onto OpenProcessing and perhaps someone can help me troubleshoot the issue.

Now I must tend to my poor little kitten who has conjunctivitis. Adios. 

*Backgrounds created in Photoshop.

Interim Presentation: Wallpaper

Inspiration: 

Illusion

Surrealism

Steam punk

Retro colours

Retro wallpaper.

Retro illustration.

Jessica Hische. 

So, without further ado, I present hours of painstaking labour (click images for high-res). Voila!

Made in Illustrator and Photoshop. 

Mario's Favourite Mode of Transport

A diagonal stripe pattern with a twist (the twist was unintentional).

A little better... but not quite.

Dammit I'm mad. Surely the blatantly obvious is staring me in the face?

{

strokeWeight(20);
stroke(#8d5173);
line(0,0,70,70);
strokeWeight(20);
stroke(#8d5173);
line(0,70,70,0);

fill(#6b455c);
noStroke();
quad(20, 35, 35, 20, 50, 35, 35, 50);

fill(#6b455c);
noStroke();
quad(0, 15, -15, 0, 0, -15, 15, 0);

fill(#6b455c);
noStroke();
quad(70, 15, 85, 0, 70, -15, 55, 0);

fill(#6b455c);
noStroke();
quad(55, 70, 70, 55, 85, 70, 70, 85);

fill(#6b455c);
noStroke();
quad(-15, 70, 0, 55, 15, 70, 0, 85);

stroke(#d6abc6);
strokeWeight(1);
line(0,0,70,70);
stroke(#d6abc6);
strokeWeight(1);
line(0,70,70,0);

noFill();
stroke(#582c45);
strokeWeight(1);
quad(0, 35, 35, 0, 70, 35, 35, 70);

noFill();
stroke(#d6abc6);
strokeWeight(1);
quad(0, 0, 35, -35, 70, 0, 35, 35);

}

It's better though, switched out the triangles for quadrilaterals, but it's still having weird overlapping issues. Ooh, and much much prettier with the pink:

And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling brackets!

I started working on a plaid background in Processing 1.2, because often times, it turns out fairly awesome. But I can't seem to grasp what on earth is going wrong with my code. For the record, it should look like this:

Except, it's looking more like this - oh little sadistic glitch thingy, how you torment me so!

ARGH!!!