Project one reflections

Things I learnt:
I guess the first thing that I learnt was processing in general.. I had never tryed any coding before in my life.
I learnt how to make curves, arcs, and geometric shapes. I learnt how to fill shapes with colour and make colours transperant. I guess the hardest part of the project was just trying to save my sketches as pdf files which took quite a long time to figure out.

Things that helped:
I found that other people in the class were quite helpful. And also found that I could help other people with stuff that I had learnt. As far as motavation I guess just wanting to finish on time was my main motavation.

Improvments:
I would like to get more famililar with processing, im still struggling to understand most of it which obviously affected my final sketches. As a goal I want to be able to make better looking designs and start making things move on my page.

My first attempt

This was my first attempt at making my wallpaper.. as you can see the lines dnt really line up and i also found it hard to make smaller segments and curves.. I would have put ti up before the final but it was saved on the uni computers

final screen shots

Well after a lot of very fidely code to try and make my vines line up and add thorns iv finally finished my final mock ups.. Basically I got my inspiration my an unluckly source which turned out to be my neighbours back garden.. Since my initial sketches I have tryed a few different techniques to try and achieve curves that will look like vines.. My first was to use arcs which was going well but i found not only were they hard to understand but even harder to line up and get small segments to move and bend were i wanted them.. After a lot of trying and asking to many questions I also thort of a new problem of how to fill them with the colour i wanted.. After consulting ben he directed me to the curvevertex tool which makes your curves into a shapes which you can then fill with colour and adjust transperancy's... So i quickly abondoned my first attempt and set out with the new curve vertex tool.. My first problem was how to make a full shape of curves look like a small segment of vines that had a fill in them.. to do this i had to continue the curves off the page then come back and continue back to the finish point of the shape. Now the shape of my first part of vine was complete and finshed right a the very edge of each board.. Once I had a vine that stretched across four boards and line up so it would look continuous.. I made some smaller vines using the same tool but added some transperancy so they looked like they were in the background and wouldnt take your attention away from the main vine.. finally i started making thorns.. I started with thorns all of the same size and equal distances apart but decided it would better suit my initial thoughts if they were a bit randomly placed and sized..

Initial panel sketches

I apologise for the horrible condition of the scan. unfortunatly the scanner decided to only send me half of my sketch panels, but here is my final idea.. For my final im hoping to add some colour to this and play with transperancy...

A few patterns I made in processing.. One using lines and circles with different stroke weights and the other using circles and different transperancys to make a cool effect