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So then, since the las post I’ve had a play with Processing. I decided to put some oscillators in to shake things up a bit… I created a few global variable names something like SPHERE_RADIUS_VARIATION_AMPLITUDE_PROPORTION, but found them beastly to work with (long lines ahoy!), and that was with only one oscillator, so then decided to have a crack at creating a new class for an oscillator.

Exciting stuff, to be sure. Well, it was at least mildly exciting to get it working soon enough with only the existing code as a guide and a vague stab in the dark as to how to call a constructor from within a constructor…

I also decided to colour the black sphere something… other than black, so you could better see the oscillations, and also where the edge(s) are. The inner sphere pulsates, as does the “outer sphere” of hairs. When you move the mouse, the inner sphere, or ‘heart’, beats faster and faster… but slows down if you don’t move the mouse. Moving the mouse also causes the outer hair sphere to expand as though being flung out by the speed of the mouse movement. The number of the hairs which are rendered cycles up and down too, from sparse to dense and back again.. and again… and again! Nothing too exciting, but overall it is somewhat more engaging than the original sketch.

The code is starting to get ratty again though… plenty of magic numbers in there without explanations. The Oscillator class helps quite nicely though. Yay for that! :o)

Esfera_mod_by_spxl_2
based on Esfera.pde by David Pena

Source code:
Esfera_mod_by_spxl_2.pde
Hair.pde
Oscillator.pde

The sketch is was thrown into the same directory as the “original” sketch with the hoping that the close-to-one-megabyte OpenGL library (jogl.jar) would be loaded just once by a user’s browser for separate visits to the two different sketches.

If not, well, I guess there’s no helping some things.

Meanwhile, it’s pleasing to note that the “workflow” I outlined in the last post worked pretty well for getting the new sketch online and into the blog. I did cheat a bit by copy’n'pasting the HTML for the linking from the blog, then doing a search’n'replace of “_spxl” with “_spxl_2″, and didn’t feel any need to otherwise change the descriptive attributes of tags. It won’t always be so easy,

-spxl

Posted in: 3D Graphics, Interactive, OpenGL, Processing Sketch, Subpixel's Creations by subpixel / Tags: magic numbers