Meeting V — Time-Based Art

Time and Interaction

• Project 4: Interactive Time-Based Art
• Sensing interaction with “system variabless”
  • mouseX
  • mouseY
  • pmouseX
  • pmouseY
  • key
• Sensing the flow of time with “system variabless”
  • millis()
  • second()
  • minute()
  • hour()
  • day()
  • month()
  • year()
• Transformation functions (again)
  • scale()
  • rotate()
  • translate()

Something to look at

Download an Processing program I wrote years ago. This program is mostly controlled by calling frameRate() and setting the variables name1 and name2.

Something to do for a couple of days

In the last class we looked at a snowman program. Start a program and include the snowman function in your program. Use some of these variables to sense user interactions or the flow of time to make the snowman dance by following the the position of the mouse. Upload your effort to the January 28 lecture dropoff on Moodle.

Upcoming homework

Take a look at the first homework.