#openprocessing

[supercijpn]

ちょっと光らせてみた。ランダムに選んだアルファベット１文字を回転対称操作してタイリング。

[pllanarally]

Planet Brubeck Clock

Assignment: Make a "clock for aliens" using processing.exe

Imagine a planet that runs on brubeck time. That's right, quintuples baby. I wanted to make a sequencer animation vaugely based on the quartet instrumentation in "Take Five". First I took a look at the sheet music for each part and jotted down how many hits were in each bar for each instrument.

Note that I decided to focus only on the hihat for the drums because you could build a whole other program solely on sequencing the entire drum kit. I wrote down five bars here even though that's more than the proper measure... I fixed this later in the program.

Okay, time to get to coding work. First I started out making a nice grid & color scheme.

Nested "for" loops, we love em.

Each bar I would have representing an instrument, with the top bar representing the measure. I wanted rectangles to appear that would syncronize with the song (as best as I could without proper, jazzy delays). First I had to make some rectangles.

Werk!!

Each rectangle is based off the smaller rectangles in the original grid, henve the rectangle widths being things like 15 * rectW, where rectW is width (of the window) / 60.

Now came the tricky part, which was making multiple rectangles for each bar that would blink across the screen in time with the music.

The solution to making multiple rectangles all the way across was another for loop. I understood that to make each rectangle appear and then fade out, I would have to draw the background OVER each rectangle over and over again with an alpha channel creating the fade effect; hence, a nested for loop with the code for the background I wrote first.

The trickiest part was figuring out the timing; when I first wrote the for loop all the rectangles would activate and fade out at the same time. I realized I needed to index each rectangle so I could give them each their own start time as well as a flexible "fade duration" that would allow me to finesse the timing of each loop as much as possible. I thought about using millis() for my timekeeping factors but decided not to overcomplicate things and just stick with frameCount. I bet using millis() and maybe even seconds() might help create more jazzy patterns but... that's hard.

After perfecting the code for the first row(representing four measures, since it is 5 beats over 4 bars, after all), I moved on to the second row.

Figuring out how to get the rectangles to fade was the trickiest part, so once that was done it was just a matter of personalizing each row and changing the overall visual style. Writing each row as its own function seemed the easiest way to go to stay organized rather than dumping all the code in the draw() function. I decided to show the grid in the end because I thought it gave the program a more analog look.

The only variables I had to play with when creating each function were the y-position and the width of the rectangles, and the fadeDuration and delayBetweenRectangles to get the timing right, the rest of the function (the opacity and the background) working across all functions.

Et voila! My Brubeck Clock. Again, with some extra finessing with the time functions, I bet I could make each rectangle sync up with each note played on the saxaphone, for example. However I wouldn't really know where to begin or end with trying to mathmetize jazz music. Math rock, maybe....

The last function I wanted to deploy was one where it would save a picture of the screen upon click. As we look at the hands of a clock to tell our time, on Planet Bruebeck, the position of each beat in the five bars is how they tell their time. Oh look, it's 2nd Measure, C7, D12, A#, Closed Hat.... o'clock!

Tried to upload it to openprocessing, a website that seems to hate me because I can never get my animations to show up right. However, if you take the code from there and pop it in processing yourself, it should work swimmingly! Try watching with Take Five on... it's pretty close, I think.

Thank you and enjoy.

[beardedmrbean]

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/495901/

This was the link on a post I saw a day or so ago that I was worried was a rick roll at first.

I was happy to be wrong about it

[katesprocessblog]

Week #3

Introduction

For this week I knew I needed to spend a little time narrowing down what I wanted my topic to be. Next week I plan on spending most of my time on that task but I still need to do some thinking now because I’m at a point where I’m encountering recurring issues:

Issue #1: I know I want to do something personal relating to finding one’s identity and how hard that can be growing up when you feel othered or like you don’t belong. I just don’t know if I want to use the lens of nostalgia, horror, or both to convey feelings of discomfort? I’ve enjoyed the research I’ve done but I just don’t feel totally set on that yet even though I spent the last two weeks largely looking into it.

Issue #2: I haven’t seen a lot of horror? It’s a genreI stayed away from for so long, and it’s only been a recent thing that I’ve felt like I want to explore more and I feel drawn to, but I'm not knowledgeable on the subject so I need to decide if I want to pivot off of this or not. I think the form of horror I’ve consumed the most is through video games so I could spend a week diving into that.

I am hoping my research this week leads me in the right direction.

Research

I sent out a google form this week asking questions related to horror/thriller genres in media people consumed growing up and how they might have been affected by them. I also wanted to know why people really like these genres or why not.

Do you consume media (games, films, TV, books, videos) containing horror/psychological/thriller elements?

When you were a teen/preteen, what were some of the memorable pieces of media in those genres that you consumed?

Are you drawn to these genres? Why or why not?

Do you remember any media in these genres being particularly nostalgic for you?

Are you easily scared or frightened? Did/do you have a lot of nightmares often now or when you were younger?

I sent this out on monday to some friends and as of writing my blog post I’ve gotten 8 responses. There is a wide variety of answers which I’m very happy about. I found it interesting that I had responses in all 4 quadrants of this table. 

Enjoys horror and gets scared easily

Doesn’t enjoy horror and attributes that to getting scared easily

Enjoys horror and isn’t scared easily

Doesn’t enjoy horror and isn’t scared easily

The question about nightmares led to some interesting thought processes and I might look into that more. Like I had one person say that they are super anxious and got a lot of nightmares as a kid but don’t like horror not because it’s scary but because they find a lot of it to be “cheesy”. Another person said they have to watch horror media during the day which I definitely relate to. It reminded me though how the dark is an extra layer of scariness because of the unknown that comes with not being able to see your surroundings well. 

Overall there’s a lot more that I learned from the responses so far and I think it helps me find some more things to look into as potential points of views surrounding maybe the eyes and identity or nightmares and identity etc.

Creative Research

One of my friends had mentioned I should look into OpenProcessing, which is an online platform that allows people to share and explore creative coding projects made with p5.js and other programming languages. It's like a social network for artists and programmers, where you can find, showcase, and collaborate on interactive artworks and visual experiments. I just started learning JavaScript and using the p5 library this year and the generative art side of the website drew me in.

Some examples of cool things that I was looking into on the website:

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1270210

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2065676

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2095152

Over the week I ended up looking into tutorials on the basics of making sketches. This one guy has a good series on different topics like shapes, loops, color, trig functions, noise. I just spent time learning more about generative art and I think these skills can help me in the future of wherever I head in my project. 

Reflections

This week I think I gained some good insights. I know I want to work with identity and research something related to that pain and discomfort that comes with trying to find your identity, especially growing up in the preteen and teenage years. My creative research was not connected really to my reflection but I do think I will use what I learned in the future of my project. I know for next week I will continue to expand upon what we worked on in class with identifying a point of view and I have some really good ideas I just need to look for gaps in information now.

[monke-the-2nd]

first time making....well any sort of game thingy

[heartsinthetrim]

Exploring slope fields with

@dandersod

’s applet:

Link: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1200971

#slopefield #eulersmethod #ode #iteachmaths #ilovemaths 😃���🤩

@openprocessing

@ProcessingOrg

https://x.com/jcponcemath/status/1685392995741577216

[ilyamaninus]

In the vast landscape of global entrepreneurship, few stories stand out as uniquely inspiring as Ilya Manin’s. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ilya’s journey to success is a testament to perseverance, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of personal and professional growth.

[supercijpn]

ちょっと光らせてみた。ランダムに選んだアルファベット１文字を回転対称操作してタイリング。

[janejensenmu]

Jane Jensen is an American video game designer and author. She is mostly known as the creator of the Gabriel Knight series of adventure games, and also co-founded Oberon Media and Pinkerton Road video game development companies.

[sebastiancarv]

¡PUEBAS DE PROYECTO FINAL!

Pare este proyecto final me propuse la creación de un código de programación que pueda formar rostros semi-realistas a través de partículas de color. He tenido avances cruciales, mismos que pueden ser visualizados en el siguiente link:

Aquí encontramos tres avances importantes, y aunque son pruebas, se encuentran las funciones y acciones para esta pieza de arte interactiva. Hoy se hizo la tercer prueba, pero seguiremos trabajando en el desarrollo del código para crear algo increíble. :)!

[stevediazblog]

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[fyprocessing]

Richard Bourne

[v-aportfolio]

Modifying a code to add a logo for one of the final assignments in the Fall semester 2023.