Spin Spin Spin

This sketch wasn't as bad as I first thought. I incorporated four variables and three different colors (four if you include black). The real challenge for this was just coming up with what to make, but previous sketches were enough of a jump-off point to get started (as usual). There were a few challenges to overcome, but none that a bit of tinkering and reading couldn't fix. I had a lot of fun with the particular sketch and hopefully it provides enough entertainment for you as it did me.

Hi!

Despite my hopes of making something a bit more complex, I got quite turned around with some of the functions, thus preventing me from creating a larger sketch with two words instead of one (it was meant to say 'Hi There'). Despite the offset, I like the finished product, especially with the added strobe effect the letters portray if both the mouse buttons are clicked one after the other. This sketch only contains two colors, but seem to work well despite the limitation. Another wall of coding was used for the greeting (hopefully I'll get the hang of the shorthands soon), but it was worth it just to have a greeting present at the click of a button.

Frankie Flood

Last week, I attended a lecture given by Frankie Flood, an Assistant Professor at UWM who is responsible for engineering some of the most impressive work I’ve seen displayed in recent memory. Despite the complexity of his works, he didn’t go through much engineering during his time in school. During his presentation, he showed my class and I how he got started, what he started with, and what he was working on currently.

He began by introducing us to the pizza cutters he made by hand, which may not sound like much, but each individual slicer had so much going on in terms of parts, shape, and color that it drew me in almost immediately. He took us through the process of creating each one and even gave each one its own name (I was quite partial to Psycho Pizza Hot Rod…at least I think that was its name). Then he went on to talk about how he took inspiration from Hot Rods and their style as well as when he was contacted by a famous chef on the Food Network (who loved his designs so much, he got a tattoo of one of the early pizza cutters). Flood finished his presentation by introducing us to his latest project; 3D printed prosthetic. He and his team would create a 3D scan of the arms of children who were born without fully developed hands and build around the formation to create a full hand complete with fingers controlled through the movement of their arm, allowing them to do anything from writing to shaking hands with others. The evolution of his entire presentation was quite inspiring, especially since he took us from start to finish without skipping over a single detail.

Mapping

So instead of coming up with the same hypnotic effect I came up with when I first used the mapping function, I instead came out with a sort of fading graph with a multiple layered prism (or similar shape)on top. I had more difficulty incorporating the map function into this sketch because I took another route compared to creating a normal, repeating, multicolored circle and instead made something that feels a bit more advanced. Despite the trouble it gave me, I think this is a pretty cool result.

For Loops

This sketch was a bit difficult to get the hang of, but with some reading I was able to make what you see now. I used two for loops, on inside the other, to create the overlapping circles in the background and then basic rectangles and fill statements to add some color and make the sketch less, well, dreary. The difficulties I faced resulted from one or another interval or statement being slightly off, but they were all fixed with some searching and tweaking. Aside from choosing the colors to go with, I'd say this sketch didn't take me nearly as long as I expected it to and I'm proud of what I have created.

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Open Processing

http://www.openprocessing.org/user/46603