Where to now?

So after a few hours of thinking and looking around. Ive gone back to my ball game. Not the game itself but just the general principles of it. I have removed the line element to it and made the balls appear from the mouse positions (also giving them a changeX value, allowing them sideways movement), adding a new level of interactivity. From here I will develop sound and more elements into the original idea to make the whole thing more interesting.

Some more Ideas

After todays lecture with Ben and Fridays Interim, I have had some thought about how I can add more interaction and make the program more exciting for the user. This is causing plenty of problems as I cant seem to get passed the original idea. The only things I can think of are either using particles which move 'somehow' when the wave is created, or interacting with the wave in general. I will have a look for some inspiration on Open Processing today and try and develop this idea more. If all else fails I can go back to square one and start again.

Beginning Ideas for Project 2

My first ideas for project two were inspired from a guitar. I wanted to have 6 lines or 'strings' across the screen and if you clicked on them they would vibrate in a sine wave pattern and give of a sound depending on the wavelength of the wave generated.

This was too literal for this project so I took the idea which I liked the most. This was the sine wave part. I developed this by removing the 6 strings. Adding more interaction was tricky, but I thought about adding a function where you clicked and dragged the mouse it would create a line at those points. Then when clicked on it would vibrate with a wave and again release a sound depending on the wavelength and the lines length.

Expanding circles thing

Heres a little fun game thing I made during class today.

Click to create a circle which pulsates in and out.

Not much to it but its fun to look at.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=25331

Here are the four PDF's which Ive printed off to hand in.

http://pdfcast.org/pdf/angleswithspots
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/angled-lines
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/box-ilusion
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/line-pattern

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24372
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24410
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24414
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24420

Here are the final four Wallpapers uploaded to OpenProcessing.

3 of the four panels were done when I hit a roadblock. I didnt think that the last one (the orange one) really worked well with the other three. Me and luke had a chat and I decided to drop it. I then began to program a more complex one which took a lot of debugging =(  Im really happy with the new one as it fits in a lot better with the rest of the set.