For my midterm project, I wanted to create an interactive sunflower that moves and grows with different interactions.
Over the 2 week process, I hope to apply the more recent tools of animation through computation to develop the sketch into a more dynamic product. Furthermore, I found the most recent class on “classes” extremely useful in developing a more organised workflow with coding in processing. I hope to utilise this to see which elements of the sketch can be enhanced and brought to life – including the background as well as the main sunflower. Ultimately my main aim is to make the Sunflower, or at least parts of it, grow into themselves when the program is first run, after which different elements can be manipulated in different ways; e.g. shifting speed in the rotation of petals, and a convincing and animated background that mimics a Van Gogh painting.
Making the initial sketch was relatively simple. I’ve found myself becoming more intuitive when creating shapes using the grid system, as well as performing basic animation functions on different shapes that can operate independently of each-other (for example the two sets of petals that spin in different directions.
However, I keep running into issues in creating my first class (for the petals). For some reason, the positioning is affected when I try, although the petals themselves still rotate accordingly and change color. Even more frustrating is that the sketch doesn’t appear at all when imported into OpenProcessing.
ORIGINAL SKETCH 1 PAGE: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/512825
SKETCH WITH PETAL CLASS: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/512616