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To be completely honest, I find processing to be very difficult to learn how to use. I have been struggling to understand coding and how processing works. Even with this simple design, I struggled to figure out how the placement of code affects different parts and how to use all the commands we learn in class. The first thing I worked on was how to create repetitive shapes in processing using loops. When I finally got the shapes to work I played around with the text. Since I needed a component that changed with time I thought back to when I did Arduino in high school. I remembered that the liquidcrystal_i2c moves across the screen so I decided that that style is what I wanted to include in my poster.
When I started to create poster 2 I initially wanted the circles to look like they were breathing. I tried looking up videos but none of them helped me because I didn’t understand what they were doing in the long run. I went back to the basics and looked at the examples that the Processing website has. I used stroke weight and fill random to get them to move and then realized that it looked more like a dance floor. I remembered that room 826 has a disco ball and decided to change the colors of the circle to look like a dance floor.
To keep up with the dance floor theme I thought it would be cool to incorporate a keypress that made it so when you pressed a key, a “spotlight” would appear on the screen. To do this I went back into the Processing website and I used one of the examples . Again I struggled with how to divide the code throughout my own code but when I figured it out. Everything worked perfectly.
Write some comments about what you learned during this exercise, for example, list the most interesting functions you used or what you struggled with. Be thorough so that you can refer to these notes in the future.
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