NOC W6 – liquid kitten with wings🥛🕊

Spring Structure

sketch here🥲

Brief:

A bouncy little cat that can flap its wings.

Inspiration:

Process:

In the beginning, everything seemed as silky as this kitten.

I first try to create a rectangle with curveVertex(). No gravity, just to check if my idea could work well.

Then I managed to posit different balls following a circle track. However, only the spring force between two neighboring balls is not enough, it has no way to bulge the kitten’s body.

I added spring force to the diagonal as well. I make the length longer and plan to adjust k after I finish the body.

This time I add gravity to the balls. At first I do not plan to avoid overlapping because I set the gravity a little bit larger so that only when the balls overlap can I lift the kitten up. But then I also modify the damping, which make the kitten easier to be lifted up because the gravity was not that strong. After this I realized that it is better to avoid overlap issue.

to make up for that (having nothing to do), I decided to fulfill another dream of mine, to make wings using spring.