Projects for the ITP course Nature of Code
Over the last week I have made considerable of progress on my Solar powered fractal tree. Enclosure The bamboo plywood from Inventables arrived! Mai Claro, Daniel Ryan, Benjamin Moll, and a number of other ITP students helped to get me up and running for my first time on the laser cutter. I cut initially out […]
For my final project in The Nature of Code and Energy I am constructing a fractal plant, running on Arduino, that will reside on an e-paper display and be powered by the sun. Over the last few weeks I have made progress sourcing components and getting the basic circuitry assembled following my previous post with […]
While developing the concept for my final project, a solar powered virtual plant, I have been considering whether integrating a genetic algorithm would be useful. Already I have been planning to include some randomness to the generation of fractal trees through a random seed, however lets take a moment here to explore how a genetic […]
This week I reproduced a fractal tree on an e-paper display using an Arduino Nano 33 IoT . Getting things working working in the Arduino IDE involved additional libraries including Geometry.h to allow working with points, rotations, and coordinate transformations. The Waveshare 5.65″ 7-Color e-paper display took some effort to get working but was helped […]
For this week’s assignment in The Nature of Code I learned about coding movement for autonomous agents with the key movement characteristics breaking down into seeking objects and avoiding objects. The goal of this assignment is being able to program behaviors for how individual objects respond to their environment and allowing that to happen in […]
For my midterm project in The Nature of Code I set out to create an interface to display data representing my electricity use at home. I have been thinking about how my actions, like driving a car or leaving on a home appliance, have consequences in the environment through carbon emissions, however the connection often […]
For this week’s assignment in The Nature of Code I used what we have learned about generating oscillations with trigonometric functions to create an abstract clock. My goal was to create something that shows the passage of time in an interesting, though not necessarily useful, way. This clock sketch makes use of the millis() function […]
This week in The Nature of Code I learned about techniques for simulating forces in P5.js using vectors and principles from physics. In brainstorming for this assignment the indie game LIMBO was a strong inspiration for the look and feel. Expanding on the in class demo of Gravitational Attraction I set out to write a […]
This week we learned about vectors in P5.js which are useful for calculating position and movement values in 2D and 3D space. As practice I rewrote code from my previous Random Walk assignment to use vectors to store coordinates. I also restructured the code below to make use of a Tangle class to generate objects […]
For this first assignment in the Nature of Code course at ITP I created a P5.js sketch utilizing the noise function to paint on screen. Since the assignment was open ended I did some brainstorming to set on a few constraints. A Google search turned up this example of random walk art that I was […]