Day 165 / Learning From Others

I was so sleepy from my late night at work the previous night that I could hardly read my “Learning Processing” book.  I wanted to get through another chapter but I couldn’t seem to retain anything.  So, I turned to the website Open Processing which is a place that hosts processing sketches.  It’s pretty fun to browse other peoples sketches to see what can be done with Processing.  A few days ago while I was browsing I came across Caroline Kassimo Zahnd’s sketches and in particular this beautiful sketch.  If you study her sketches you can see how she has taken one simple code and revised it and revised it.

 

I decided to follow her progress and see how she adjusted her sketch.  Eventually, I broke away and experimented with my own ideas.  The thing with Processing is that it can be pretty easy to understand the basics of how it works and translates your code but without experimentation it can be tough to figure out how to use that knowledge.   For me, I decided to play with lines and the different ways to have lines connected to the mouse position.

 

To play, click and drag in the box below.  The ‘z’ key will clear the screen.  Enjoy!