https://editor.p5js.org/TinaZhang226/sketches/Y8jGpAY_a
This week, I started with some random tests and later on found the inspiration to mimic a Flying Kite with the use of Spring concept.
First, I just tried to apply more balls and springs and change the rad to see different patterns. And I really like this pattern, so I started to make more and hope to see if have two different group of spring and bob objects could have interaction with each other.
Here are tests where I duplicate for two groups of spring objects, and I found it quite interesting, probably in the future, the two objects could have a self rotation, and they would attracted to the bobs in the other group so that the two groups could collide or repel, just as what we have done previously to single balls, may have the potential to mimic water drops colliding with each other, I think.
But for this week, when I added stroke weight to the spring line, I just randomly thought of something like a flying kite or a bunch of ballons, so I decided to mimic a flying kite this time.
So I started back with only one group of spring and bobs again, and take out all the circles of bob. And I searched on website of flying kite and realized that a flying kite usually do not need so many bobs, it should contains only four, with one of the bob has a slightly longer restLength than others.
So, I started to take out the unnecessary parts of my previous code and make it more realistic and similar to the reference.
And finally, I add a curve attached to the bottom bob as the kite string and change the appearance and color settings to polish my project, which in the end becomes this:
Leave a Reply