Thought Process
I wanted to do something with circles or rectangles. I remember messing around with the iteration part in the last activity and I thought it looked interesting, so I implemented that “mistake” into this poster.
For WIP #1, I liked the wavy effect when each stroke is stacked together, but I didn’t like how the final circle was completely filled like that. So I made it no fill and changed the stroke colors instead. I also tried using an array for the background lines, which I got help from the p5 textbook. My WIP #2 seemed a bit messy and busy, but it was super colorful so I decided to add text at the bottom and called it “unicorn farts”. WIP #3 was going to be the final product, but it didn’t have the lines.
The final poster is a combination of WIP #2 and #3. I moved the colorMode() to the circles function so the lines could be random between black and white and I increased the i+= 5 to i+= 30 so the lines didn’t so busy. I also changed the saturation of the circles. So in the end, I was able to keep the array part in the code, but I removed the text. I think the final poster is pretty trippy. (Edit: I added the text back to make it like a poster).
reflection
It was difficult for me to come up with an idea for this poster, but messing around with each part of the for loop inspired me to finally end up with this. I think experimenting around really helped me generate different ideas and finally be satisfied with the end product. However, if I were to come back to this, I would want to try switching the lines with a different shape.