Transformation

Transformation - Emerge

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=18410

- using variables and loops,"if".

simple circles that change size and looks like animation.
 - the only way it transforms is in the size of the circle, very simple

 transformation

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=11202
- generates a different picture every time you press "r", animates slowly as the colours and opacity change. new shapes can be seen as it "transforms". I like how delicatly it transitions and how the colours and shapes interact with each other with the use of opacity.

- doesnt transform greatly, keeps the same theme.

 - uses "if","keypressed","loadpixels". Is quite complex.

 Transformation - Join

 http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=18414

- transforms as you drag the mouse across the screen. Image is always the same, so is quite simple, but does move or animate. Animation is simple also tho as the rectangles only move horizontally. 

 - Uses simple coding with "mousex" used as co ordinates

"The Bigger Picture" notes

Programming is great because you can have an idea, and with a computer, explore this idea further than you ever could without. Programming takes the complexity out of a complex design with the use of repetition and randomly generated aspects.

It helps greatly to evolve a basic design idea. A downside is that it is not easy to make things that look realistic or that do not have a pattern. It is also not good for animations that do not change or evolve.

It is easy to change the amount or size of something in programming and is best used when you need variation, interaction, generation, repetition, calculation or scalability.

You must place rules or instructions to narrow and pinpoint what you want the program to make while still being able to change and have some randomness. 

Interaction must be programmed in, the program must know what to do when the user does a certain action.

There are different programming languages for certain tasks, but they are all quite similar.

It is great to use other peoples code, but you MUST acknowledge it.

Project One Reflection

 I have learnt how to do a lot more in processing by looking at other peoples sketches, figuring out what I liked about them, and figuring out how to replicate certain parts. Seeing my sketches develop is what helped and motivated me to learn, trying to improve them more and more and trying new things out.

To improve my next projects I want to start sooner so that I have plenty of time to improve it and work out any imperfections. Also I want to learn more about printing so that I dont have any problems with it, like I did in this project.

I want to learn even more about processing, and learn more about interaction. I will achieve this goal by learning from other peoples sketches and trying out new things.

Final Wallpapers Pics

Final Wallpapers

 With my final design I decided to concentrate on a series of lines that then develops into something more complicated, resembling 3d.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24376

The first wallpaper is simply a series of lines going vertically and horizontally over a series of random rectangles that give the image a sense of depth. There is also a series of diagonal lines that suggest the begining of something. The line that develops through out the panels starts at the very bottom and is not easily seen at first. The colours begin with being mostly blue and green and slightly transparent.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24376

The next panel continues the theme of random transparent rectangles and lines and also continues and develops the thick lines that had begun in the first panel. Red is more apparant in this panel as the colours slowly become warmer.


http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24378


The thick lines have now become a translucent white wall that suggest a sense of three dimensions in a 2d picture. The colours continue to become warmer


http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24379


The final panel is the most colorful of all and continue the walls, but they now follow a sort of pattern and simplicity, similar to the first panel. I wanted to show how something can develop from something very simple to something more complex while having a same theme present. I also put random translucent white quads around the walls, that give the final panel more complexity and also suggest further development.

Wallpaper Project Ideas

First ideas for wallpaper project

My idea firstly was to have a development from the first to last panel. In this scetch, the images develop from structured lines to something for organic and natural, but there is a constant line that goes through the panels, that connects them all.

Sketches using pattern maker

Based on a sketch, just a simple traingle symbol, not sure if colours are the best
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=22812

A lot of triangles that I tried to make look llike 3d spikes using different shades of grey.
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=22807

A cross pattern using circles of different shades of blue.
 http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=22806

 Using straight lines to make curves, based on sketch
 http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=22808