Project 3 - Expo Piece Progress

o have began making my expo piece and it it comeing together nicely. I found a perfect sized wooden box at home to use to display evrything. the following images are of my progress with description of what it is, why i have done this how it links to my coding term.

this is my background i am putting on the base if the box i have used an image with very simple sections which represent each season; spring, summer, autumn and winter. I added the small images such as leaves to the autmn area and snowflakes to the summer ect. This was to make the seasons more clearer and to look good. I printed a few copys of this so that i could put them on each face of the box that is going to bet on the center of the box

Project 3 - Final Idea

i have chosen my final idea and now want to develop it. And fast, these are four different ideas that are based in one main idea. Te original idea was to make a sheep that you pull our and smalled sheep come out if it wen it is in a certain section of the background. After looking inro this i realised tht it would a a bit to complicayer to make which is why i though of these varieties.

Project 3-New Ideas

from mixing random words together from my brainstom and usig a bit of creativity i came up with a huge bunch of ideas for the expo, i consider both the code terms if/else and while loop. These are the results:

After a lot of ideas i realised they weren't a proper meaning of the if/else statment, the if else statment is not mrnt to be a natural thing that would hapen eg if u mox yellow paint with blue paint it makes green. We know this happens so it is just natural, however i needed some thing was going to be like a suprise, something artificial and unknown. The idea of n if/else statement is that when a certain statement is true then something specific happens and if not, something different happens. Keepig this on mind i came up with a few better ideas

Project 3-New Brainstorm

So far i am definatly not happy with my ideas so i'v decided to re brainstorm evrything and think of some new more innovative ideas.
I tried really hard to colaberate on the monopoly idea thinking of different ways i could [resent it and what code suited it best. I came up with some of the following ideas:
1. Showing images of a games being played in sequences showing how the money gets used up-Loops
2. Having some chocolate pieces on the game board which are the playing pieces. Over the expo people will eat the chocolates, gradually eliminating players(you cant play when there a no more players left-loops
3. Making wooden pieces that represent money that pop in and out of the side of the board-If/Else

Here is a new brainstorm i have done. I got help from my tutor Ben to come up with some new ideas.I used a technique where you try to clear your mind and not to think of anything. Doing this you must then write down absolutely any word that comes to your head. Here are the two results:

Project 3-Ideas

For my first favourite idea I used a monopoly board to base a processing game on.
The idea was to play the game until the all the cash goes to one player (one player goes bankrupt.

My second idea was to create model that the audience can play with to understand a loop. This idea is quite literal to a loop as the model is in the shape of a spiral.
This idea sprung from the childrens toy where you move beads along a maze of tracks sitting in the air.

My thrid idea was to create a track which the audience can push an object across.
This is similar to my second idea thou it relaes to loops a bit more. The object that will be pused around will have a piece of metal underneath that will slowly disintergrate as it gets used, until il cannot touch the main surface it sits on.

Project 3-Brainstorming

Project 3-Introduction

For our next project we are looking at how codes work and creating something related to a metaphor to explain the type of code.

I have chosen loops as i thought it was the code i understood clearly and thought it would have some interesting ways of showing it.

Project 2-Final

Here is my final project uploaded to my open processing account and our classroom.

I am happy with how my final ended out. After all the problems i came across it was resolved to end out how i wanted it. I think it is interactive and it can be played with for a while because there is a lots of different sounds you can make.

Here is the link to open processing: http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=28321
The name of application is 'Project 2-Transformation"

Project 2-Final Code

I have finished my final code!
I spent five hours studing what an Array was and how to used it but got so puzzled by it i couldn't apply it to my own applicating. Because of this i was left to writing the 105 lines of code. I didnt take to long but made my code very long. Luckily it wasn't to hard, my variable were named based on the colours and number of circle eg r1, r2, b1, b2.

SOUND:

I made some simple piano note on garage band to use in my code.
I then added the sounds to it. All i had to do was ad an if statement to each line (circles touching) to trigger it to play a piano note. When they were all finished it sounded really good. The notes built up nicely when you more circles touched. The sound of the piano did not make one constant sounch as if you were holding a note down on a piano because the computer is told to repeat the mp3 i haded. It made the note repeat continuously like a drum but i like how it sounded as they were interesting when lots were added together.

Lastly i added a reset button so that all the circle move back to their original place. This helped hugely because the circles could easily get messed around and it was nice to start again when the sounds got to much.

Project 2-Further Progress On The Code

My code so far is looking ok but still has a few problems and i am yet to add sound.
I have shown my progress to the tutors what i have done and got some feedback.
I could not find a way to make it so when two different coloured circle touch they make a new colour. This is because the code in processing program for this is insanely complicated. My solution to this was to make the transparecy of the circle a less, so when they touch the still form a different colour. The background i have so far is white but i changed it to black as it made the colour of the circles stronger and when the colours over lap the trandspareny effect is a lot brigther and more effective. I have so many circles which means i have to write out code for when each circle touched one another.

I have 5 circles and 3 colours (5x3=15)
The 1st red circle must touch the other 4 red the 5 blue and the fiev green (4+5+5=14)
so that 14 lines of code.
Then the 2nd red circle must touch the other 3 red, 5 blue and 5 green (3+5+5=13)
It then goes on for each circle(14+13+12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=105)
That means i have to write 105 lines of code!!!

I was recommended to learn what an array was because it would let me create informatiion of a Circle using a class meaning in could tell the computer simple when a circle touched a circle it does what i want it to.