week #5
Version Control 2 / Parametric Geometries
Part 1: Explore and experiment
Example 1: Original | modified
Example 2: Original | modified
Example 3: Original | modified
Example 4: Original | modified
Example 5: Original | modified
Part 2: Re/code
In the last class I noticed a Moiré pattern in one of the slides and thought I wanted to play with that a little bit and see how it's generated. I looked at a couple examples I found online (example 1, example 2) and decided to experiment and create something similar.
That idea worked nicely with the git exercise as I really spent most of my time just tweaking the numbers to see how it affects the pattern. There were many stages at which I liked the numbers but wanted to keep trying other ones so using git was very useful! I also opened a branch, but ended up not opening other ones or merging them. I think it's because there really isn't a lot going on, and using commit was enough to make me feel safe to keep trying things out without needing to duplicate the code to a new sketch.
As for the sketch itself — I started with drawing just lines, then another set of lines that can be moved with the mouse (just to visually see how things work). I then replaced the second set of straight lines with vertexes that are controlled by layering a couple of noise functions. I also wanted to have greater variability that I thought made sense in a screen-saver context so I added a sin() function to control the noise offset so the noise's scale goes back and forth between two specific values.
I was staring at this for a long time and found that my eyes had difficulty focusing, which created an interesting effect as well... But it makes for a nice screen saver?
