Practice & Assignments

In lesson 1 we started to learn the basic of drawing and colour with Processing.

I've uploaded some of my practice sketches to Open Processing, please see below...

This example the circle follows and stay with mouse movement, when the mouse is pressed the circle turns black, when unpressed it goes white again...

We made Alien type characters. I have added a random colour on the eyes and he takes off from the bottom of the screen... Although doesn't seem to come back!

Our first assignment was to create a character who's eye react to the mouse in some way. In my sketch I have added movement of the eyes with the mouse and when the mouse is pressed the eyes blink...

I found the first week confusing but after practising the simple exercises I began to understand the basics, although it was quite tedious, going back and forth back and forth. Also after seeing what can be achieved with Processing in my research I didn't find it too rewarding.

Unfortunately I missed the whole second week due to having bad tonsilitus. This was a big problem as I was finding the code hard to understand to begin with, missing a huge chunk of the middle of Sebs lessons didn't help at all.

On my return as I had missed so much I tried to catch up by using the Processing book. Going over the same as we learnt in the first week and trying to figure out the code the others learnt last week by myself. I struggled with this! Below are some examples of some of my sketches...

Some clickable buttons (an assignment from week 2)

The buttons move randomly and when clicked change colour...

Practising movement, colour and shapes...

Practising with scale, shape, colour and movement...

Particles and arrays...

For our final assignment we had to create a basic game. I have created a very basic pong game with a hit and miss scoring system. Having missed so much of Seb's teaching I really struggled with this... Its not great but it kind of works!

I tried to get a game over function but couldn't figure it out at all. I think I have managed the basics but that is where it ends with me and processing!
Although Processing isn't for me I'm still glad I have tried it and have a basic understanding of how it all works for future projects if needed.