Reflection

What have you learnt so far, what helped and motivated you learn? Is there anything that you want to improve in your next project? Set yourself a goal and make a plan how you could achieve this goal.

Any key concepts and questions that arise – any connections you can make to your own experiences in design and with code.

• Programming is a way to express visual ideas that normally cannot be expressed on paper, or will take many hours of labour. It can be a way to create art over time through animation.
• Generative animation is animation that changes over time as well as every time you run it. Programming is the only way to achieve this form of animation.
• Programming with variables can take massive changes and solve them in only a few lines.

Investigate the topic transformation. What does transformation mean? 

Transformation to me is about the interaction with your mouse or keyboard which makes the image move, sound, or change visually into something different. 

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=8941


I found this one interesting because it  reacted to mouse movement with change in area and scale, as well as scrolling to change density and size.


http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=6753


This one is a bit different as it can be made to look 3D as you can click and drag to rotate it in any direction.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=22598

This one interests me as it introduces the concept of collision and what happens to an object when it hit another. The code actually has step by step comments on what each line does so I am currently trying to decipher what parts are applicable to me and what I can use to help my animation.