Week #15 || Interface and Application Programming
Software used:
1. Processing introduction
Like so many other things during Fab Academy, this week introduced an entirely new topic to me: creating software! After an introduction into the many options, and the advice of "if you like Arduino, you'll like Processing", I decided to do the week excersize in Processing.
We started with our teacher by taking the C code from Neil, and taking fragments from it and putting it into the fractal tree example in Processing. After setting up the right parameters, we could play with out input sensor and see the live result:
2. ContinuousLines
After the introduction, it was up to us to figure out how to continue and what to do with our input sensor. I had made the hello.light.45 in week 11, so I decided to use it for this week as well. I browsed through most of the example codes of Processing to see what I could use as a template. When I opened the Drawing/ContinuousLines sketch, I felt inspired to use this one. I tried writing an 'if' statement, connecting a value from the light sensor input and translating it into a certain line. It worked:
3. if (value >= x) { open cone; }
After having tried the above, I got creative! I thought about creating a line drawing based on the inputs, but first of all I did not want to image map a whole drawing, and second of all, I had a much cooler idea!
At the moment there is nice campain on Kickstarter, to support a movie made by Louie Schwartzberg and Paul Stamets, constisting of timelapse sequences of nature (mainly focused on mycology). The trailer gave me the idea for this weeks excersize: