Warm-up: quick p5 exercise

Recall the circle grid example from last time. Adjust it to include padding between circles so it looks more like this.

To the left: without padding, on the right: with padding

Two more sketches

<aside> ✨ Make 2 sketches that incorporate ~random~ as a theme. Your entire sketch doesn’t have to be random, just some components of it

Don’t aim for perfection here. I’d recommend spending 2-3 hours per sketch. Submit here: Submissions: Week 9 Sketches

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Optional ideas:

• Combine your sketch with a classmate’s sketch and create a composite sketch, or remix a classmate’s sketch from last week
• Optional constraint: master study
  • Kasimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Piet Modrian, and Anni Albers all worked with basic shapes, color, and natural media.
  • Create a sketch that generates new works in the style of one of these artists
• Other themes to explore
  • Create a collage of custom shapes using beginShape() and endShape()
• Build on an example from https://p5js.org/examples/
• Try out the p5.js blobby tutorial

Tips & Tools

• See Generative Art Resources for resources and programming and visualization techniques
• Note that The Coding Train has a bunch of ‘Coding Challenges’ - which walk through creating a drawing. This is a great resource, but may be a bit advanced at this point in our learning.
• p5.js examples are easy to follow and edit. Feel free to also browse OpenProcessing for inspiration on visuals.