Week 9
This week, I decided to explore p5js after a classmate, Niels, presented on it. I already had some experience in processing, so it felt pretty natural to pick up.
I started off thinking I was going to try to animate a stick figure walk cycle and a parallax effect for a background, but this was too ambitious. This is as far as I got.
So instead, I decided to do something fun and animate some parametric equations! To do this, I found some parametric equations I liked and turned them each into a function that took time as an input. Then, on each frame of the draw loop, I incremented the time by some amount, drew a circle at a new coordinate, and a line from the last coordinate to the current one
The first thing I experimented with was varying the time intervals between points. Here are 3 examples. The more jagged the shapes, the longer the time intervals.
Next, I tried to make older lines fade away by redrawing the background at around 10 or 20% transparency over every frame.
Finally, I used a sine wave function to make a rainbow RGB pattern, following a tutorial from krazydad.com, and also tried some new functions.
