Recitation Exercise

Last week I created these two images based on VERA MOLNÁR’s work, and for this week, I decided to develop my project from my previous one. The way I created these images last week was to first generate all the squares including the missing ones, and then take out the missing squares by calculating and adding all the corresponding positions into the code. When I was doing it last week, I already felt that typing in the positions one by one was not the best way to do this. During the creation process, artists have to transform their ideas into coordinate numbers, which is extremely inconvenient and not intuitive. So I decided to use our new interactive animation knowledge to improve that.

My final work interacts with users through keyboard and mouse. Simply by clicking on the top left angle of the squares, users can remove the squares they don’t want and create their own artwork. And by pressing any key on the keyboard, they can start over. 

The limitation is that users can at most remove five squares. When they click on the sixth one, the first one will show up again. If someone wants more squares to be removed, we can change the code to achieve that, but the numbers can only be set to a certain amount. What can be improved is to make the number unlimited, but I haven’t figured out the right way this time. 

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