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Week Eight Summary:

Tutorial One:

Today we did an exercise with a partner to create a real live interaction which anyone could use and we would ask those same three questions that we have been applying to everything. I worked with Zak and our interface was when he winked his left eye I would do a specific indian move, if he winked his right eye I would do a different one and if he blinked with both of his eyes then I would perform another dance move. To add variables we made it so how ever fast he blinked differentiated how fast I would be dancing. 

After we finished that we were told to find similar codes already present on the open processing website for is to use as precedents and closely work next too.

I found these codes:

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/23111

I liked this code as it is achieve something very similar to what I want to achieve with my code, the fish feel alive through the movement through their body and even the background has been made effectively. I think this code will be very useful for me as it is what I want. the interaction for the food when you click the mouse is slow and fish take a long time to change their direction. Overall an effective code, answering the questions it takes me 5 seconds to learn the interaction, once I learn the interaction it isn't very interesting as it is very repudiative


http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/6860

I found this interaction interesting because I like the aspects of the shape acting as if they are alive, looks interesting and works effectively. They bump into each other can then create new paths, this is how I want my shapes to interact with each other in my code, it looks effective and once you learn the interaction you can carry on enjoying it as you don't know how it will suddenly stop or change direction, effective code and I will be using this for my own. 

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/9298

I like this code as the interaction is interesting and both different to the two above, the flocks follow the mouse and create an effective visualization whilst doing so. Colors are basic and the shapes have no fill, looks effective and I like the mouse following interaction which I want to apply to my own code.

I have started to code on processing and I will upload them in my next blogpost.