WP2WS W02 Generative Visuals with Forces
The Tree and the Glowworm
Demo
Inspiration
I’m inspired by Dan Shiffman’s tutorial on making a recursive tree. I wanted to make a tree that has branches and leaves that react to wind forces.
Process
I started by following this tutorial to create a class for the branch. I had some problem
The tree grew infinitely:
I was stuck here for a long time because I already set the if statement to let the program stop when the length of the branch is smaller than 10.
I console.log the distance between the new end&start point and found that the distance never gets smaller than 10. Therefore, I increased the threshold to 50. And the tree stopped growing infinitely:
Then, I tried to find a way to apply the wind force onto the branch’s objects. I first tried to
Reflection
Citation
- Coding Challenge #14: Fractal Trees – Recursive:
2. Coding Challenge #15: Object Oriented Fractal Trees