Metabolism- ICM Class3 Assignment

September 23, 2014 in Intro to Computational media

[embed]https://vimeo.com/106936092[/embed] According to the law of conservation of mass，we live in the world which pursue ‘Balance’ all the time. Everything interacts with the environment, space and time. Through this kind of interaction with environment, things change, damage and then recovery by itself. We may also changed by environment, and then we adjust ourselves, receive the balance and go back to peace. I inspired by Lunar eclipse a lot, I think it's really attractable that the moon changed its shape by time, broke，changed and renewed. I think it's a kind of Metabolism even the moon is not the Organism.

So I decide to make an metabolism moon which can change, recover, and breath by itself.

And I also think it's a good time to trying arrange codings in CLASS

This is the pattern I decided to make. I wrote Class Moon in Processing. Created an drawMoon() function to generate foundation moon. drawCrater() function to generate some craters on its surface. Then I wrote drawMask() to draw an black circle layer overlay the moon in order to make it change over time.

In order to interact with the moon, I hope the moon looks like kind of damaged and affected by extra world but finally recovered itself and find its inner balance.

So I add mouse pressed on the moon, to add some extra power affect the moon

Finally, it works, it changed, moved, and recovered to obtain a kind of recycle balance.

ICM Second Assignment- Animated triangle

September 16, 2014 in Intro to Computational media

[embed]https://vimeo.com/106278981[/embed] This time I use thousands and hundreds lines to compose triangle. I add rotation to these lines and seems like they can move in a spiral way. Lines cross over，juxtaposition make different colors mixed together in an unpredictable way.

Just as you see, the lines are in different sizes and an acute triangle appears，than I arranged size of the lines and transform the triangle to a regular triangle

Then, I add some interactions, It can change colors and the rotate speed by following user's mouse.

ICM First Assignment- Astrology

September 09, 2014 in Intro to Computational media

I’m a big fan of Graphic design, and I like using simple and primary shapes, subtle changed color to make meaningful graphic. I believe duplication and overlying of shapes are powerful. Processing is a good place to create graphic design, the ordered and repeating shapes it generated is beautiful, full of rhythm and energy. Sometimes, its random generation may appear some surprising output.

After I learn generating 2D graphics in processing, I start to try drawing some simple shapes in processing just like I used to work in photoshop and Illustration. I hope one day I can use coding to make Graphic design, I mean generate some logos and posters.

So this is the first try, and I’ll keep going.

First, I have a brainstorm to pick up a theme.

I decided to make graphic like a little universe with sparkle starry light and beautiful sky. Then I use several triangles in the center generating an abstract star. Just like this—>

I used loop function to generate subtle changed color, you can see two colors they mixed together in the center of the circle. As well as used loop functions to create three triangles in the center. I draw lines from vertex to the bottom margin witch make it have wonderful visual effect.