MDDN 242 About my final

Overall I am very happy with how my final code for project one has turned out. It does still relate to my precedent images as it creates patterns using lines (made from rectangles in my case). A couple of my precedents were from Windows Media Player because when you listen to songs off the program it shows these types of patterns and that is what I was initially going for. So i am very pleased with my motion as it is something I can imagine watching while playing music. I found it very fun just experimenting with the code and coming up with new things.


I feel I have produced an animation in which the shapes relate to their movements in an interesting way. The way the lines have been created by tiny squares has proved to be very effective and also the way each separate line moves in a wave like form. The overlapping of the colors is one of my favourite aspects of the animation as it really does remind of fireworks in the night sky and creates some really interesting patterns.


The longer you watch the code run, the more interesting it becomes.

MDDN 242 - Three photos of final

MDDN 242 Making a movie

I decided that because I had some time left over I would make a small video clip showing just one put of my motion. My code when playing reminded me of lights in like a night club scene so I googled free online techno sounds and found my tune at the website: www.entropymusic.com. The music is called A different journey by Positively Dark.


I have found that watching the clip with music in the background really gives it a little bit extra. However the film could only be so long so really watching the code straight from Textmate itself lets the viewer see more of what the motion actually does.

For some reason blogger will not let me upload my video so I will upload it to youtube and post the link when I have it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmS9bctxx5s

MDDN 242 Final Code

MDDN 242 Chosen Colours

I chose this colour scheme because the previous photo of the fireworks (green based one) to me really looked best as my motion. It took me a very long time to choose between the purple and this colour. But im glad I did choose this one as the effects it creates look very vibrant when playing.

MDDN 242 Colour experiments

Out of all four of these colour examples my personal favourite is the purple, pink and white. The colours just seem to work the best together and make the different patterns stand out as the code changes. I am still going to continue changing the different colours.

MDDN 242 - Added in some extra

         

From the previous purple and white code I added in an extra rectangle which coursed the image to work from all four sides of the screen.
It went from this:

To this:

The change I made to the code was :

 ---> 

By adding in one line it completely changed the outcome of my code.

MDDN 242 Colour Motivation

After using the colours purple and white, and from the movements that my code made it really reminded me of fireworks and the way they move in the sky. Also how fireworks can have multiple colours being seen over one another and still look effective. So to help me choose which colours would have the best effects when matched together I googled a few images of fireworks to help me decide.

 

I really like the colours of the third photo. The way the orange comes through the purple looks quite cool. Also the greens, blues and yellows. So to get the right colours I feel I will have to play around with different colour schemes while taking the idea of fireworks colour into consideration.

MDDN 242 Favourite so far

From the previous examples I managed to create this next motion code. I really like the movements it begins off with plus its quite simple yet looks really effective.

This pattern is familiar to the others but it is definitely the best out of them. The way it moves to begin with is very wavy and looks great. I am going to continue editing this one, and hopefully will end up with something awesome to hand in.

MDDN 242 - Getting closer to final.

After playing around with rectangles, stroke and sin waves I maged to create the following motions:

The little rectangles begin off quite slow but then end up moving up and down the screen creating criss cross patterns as they go. I really like this because even tho its quite simple, it is very effective to watch. It also sticks with my original plan of making something with lines because the little rectangles end up making line patterns.


From this motion I just continued play around with the code and changing different aspects of it. Here is another example:

 Although the pictures look extremely similar to the previous pictures, the way it moves and creates the pattern is a lot faster and I personally find it more interesting to watch as the lines met up in the middle.

This next piece of code turned out quite differently. The rectangles start off very small but end up making some really cool patterns to look it.

MDDN 242 Progress continued

Here is a series of photos of one of my animations I have created. I really like this one because it is constantly changing. Another reason is for the fact that the colour pink appears through the yellow and adds quite a nice effect to the overall animation. The pink is quite difficult to see in the photos.

MDDN 242 Project One Progress

I have now learnt how to place the frameCount function into the def draw(): part of my code. This has certainly added more interesting and exciting aspects to my different experimentations. 
An example of this is:

I tried many ways to get rid of the line that is extending from the pattern. I was the told to add code a bit like this into the def draw(): code.  Im not sure if this is exactly it tho as I lost the animation it was added to.
if i!= 1:
continue










From here I just continued playing with the code. I added things like colour and played around with using rectangles instead of lines. 

  

MDDN 242 - Experimenting with code.

I first began by adding simple animation to one of my 1D examples from exercise one. 

I added in the code: amplitude = 50. * math.sin(frameCount)
return amplitude * math.sin( x) - 1 * pow(x, 3) / cos(x * 30).




This cause the line to move like wave. From here I made the screen size bigger and added in a few extra lines and changed different parts of the code.




I then moved onto adding the same amplitude code to one of my 3D exercises. This however was quite boring to look at because all it did in the beginning was make the circle pattern spin. 




           

MDDN 242 Precedents

Here are some example of some abstract art that I am going to use as precedents for project one. I like the way that by only using lines they have created some really interesting patterns. For my project I want to create something that has a flowing movement to it.

CCDN 271 Assignment One

MDDN 242 - Exercise One

Produce 4 examples of 1D functions, and 4 examples of 2D/parametric functions.  

The goal of the exercise is to show your mastery of the math toolbox functions 

presented in class. 

1D:

2D: