Monday, March 9, 2009

Processing Fee

It may seem like there has been a void in my blog were my type experiments should be, well worry no longer, i figured out how to put them on the web and have provided some beautiful likes in the descriptions of what they do or how to interact with them. I've ordered them in a way that makes sense as a logical progression of thought.

After learning some preliminary things i did a simple plotting of points to describe the letter A.

I switched over the code from circles, to lines and had pretty interesting results.

Here is that A again changing colors randomly all by itself.

This was a new step with the the 'A' i had been working with, i added the concept of mouse tracking to color in order to change in a more defined way instead of completely randomly.

Lame experiment in motion making.

This is just a goofy drawing study that anchors part of the object to a grown and allows the rest to move with the mouse, this idea comes up later in some of my letter form experiments.


This allows you to draw upon the K letter form and looks at how people make strokes with the less direct method of the mouse. if you click you get squares, and if you keystroke it starts over.

Mouse tracking experiment just move the mouse about.

You can continually drop this ball in new places and he will bounce himself down to a stop.

Click an drop as many O's as you want to. they will bounce them selves to a stop.

Another test on mouse tracking and tracking the previous mouse position so that his feet lag. I didn't design this guy, his name is zoog and he is from a book on learning processing.

This little fella has been creating lots of smiles, he just bounces indefinitely and if you click you can drop him in different places, he changes shades of red based on location as well.

The culmination of my processing excursion this allows the user to interact with different letters in different ways, some manipulate the size, or stroke weight some require you to figure out how to make the letter forms and thus are looking at construction, and others change randomly, so hold down the letter as you explore with the mouse.

3 comments:

jamie said...

Ian, when it comes time for you to look into grad school - I recommend Carnegie Mellon for you. Also, IIT would be good. We can talk more if your interested.

thenewprogramme said...

not so sure about iit. carnegie mellon for sure. mit, but it's terribly hard to get in.

jamie said...

Right, I meant MIT, not IIT.