After much contemplation and random coding and changing topics, I decided to work on fractals. But, less mathematically and more with the visuals of it.
Recently my friend was talking about designing patterns for fabrics and so I thought of trying to make patterns with math!
The fact is this – I am curious to hear how a fractal sounds. As crazy as this sounds, it is true. I have recently begun to wonder what it would be like to convert a light spectrum into music.
I experimented with this idea last week and here is what I ended up with.
While watching an Indian movie a few days ago I saw the actors in the movie recording music using a button and looping it over. I found it interesting, just because of its simplicity. Sure, there are tools which allow us to do the same thing – audacity, adobe stuff etc. But to be able to loop over multiple sound tracks by just pressing a button felt more gratifying. There was no need to know how to code or use tools to create music!
We started with DOM elements this week.
With my family in India, I sometimes make silly mistakes while calculating the time there. So I just decided to make a personal time calculator.
So first to actually make a clock. This was super easy with the help of the translate and rotate functions.
This week was more objects! Considering my obsession with patterns, I decided to try working on fractals.
Fractals have a beautiful definition – “Objects with finite area and infinite perimeter”
Our task this week was succinct. Use objects.
So I started off with the “Hello world” of animation – bouncing balls.
After we moved them to objects, the below code created a new ball everytime someone clicked the screen.
I spent last week trying to rotate gears using angles and sine and cos. This week, I discovered transformations!!
The beauty of them is their simplicity. To just test out what could be done, I wrote this little code block and the results were simply awesome!
After working with for loops to create circles last week, I wanted to try and reuse that logic to make gears.
With these gears I wanted to test the animation features of gears.
In ICM class 2 days ago, we discussed a javascript framework for art – p5.js. We were tasked with making a drawing using this framework and I was spending a good amount of time contemplating what to draw. I then decided to just start trying a few inbuilt functions and see where I go.
Honestly, I didn’t get too far. There was a discussion in class on looping in a computer program and so I decided to just test lines and loops.
Mathura MG 