I was inspired by the song “Blueberry Eyes” by Max (feat. SUGA of BTS). Originally, I wanted to have strawberries and blueberries raining down from the top of the sketch, but I decided to kept it simple.
I tried a few different colors for the blueberry side, such as brown and purple, but stuck with yellow. The brown with green gave me Shaggy from Scooby-Doo vibes and the purple with green reminded me of Barnie, so yellow seemed like the best color. I could’ve done a very dark blue for the “blueberry eyes” side, but I wanted to keep the colors bright.
To use translate() in my code, I moved the text up and down, left and right randomly. If I come back to this, I want to try another idea that I had, which was to draw the text repeatedly down the screen in a sequence. That is, have the text appear one at a time, with “strawberry skies” text appearing going down and “blueberry eyes” text going up.
I separated the texts into two different void for organization purposes.
I tried to do a shadow effect, but I moved it too much so it looks more like a blur. I ended up liking how it turned out, so I left it as it was.
Finally, for the circles that appear randomly, I used a for loop and random() for the x and y of the circles. I also used a float instead of int for the size of the circle so there would be even more variety in the sizes.
Conclusion
Since this is a experiencing Processing and experimenting around with the code, I feel like I could’ve went beyond and done more interesting things. If I were to rank all the editors we’ve used so far, I think Processing is third. It’s not bad, but it’s not really my favorite.