SHDH2044 Digital Visualisation in New Media - Assignment 1: White dots on big black dots
SHDH2044 Digital Visualisation in New Media
Assignment 1 (Programming)
Introduction
You are given an incomplete program of Processing and you are told to complete it by filling in appropriate codes to generate requested visual effects randomly
Basic Visual Effects (70%)
The basic requirement of the visual effect is to randomly position small white dots on top of big black dots. The black dots are placed next to each other within a window with size 300px x 300px and they form a 10 x 10 grid structure. The white dots then appear on top of the black dots and each white dot should not exceed the area of the black dot that it overlaps on.
This part covers all the codes in the given program except the one in the function of calculateSizeMini(), i.e. except the codes in line 66-78. Once you complete all the codes except line 66-78 correctly, you should be able see the effect above.
To test the result of basic visual effect of your program, you can consider disable the codes related with the function of calculateSizeMini() first (i.e. to disable line 54, and line 66-78 by turning them to comment) which is a function for advanced visual effect in the next phase. If you don’t do so, you may not be able to run the program for testing.
Advanced Visual Effects (30%)
By finishing the function of calculateSizeMini(), you should be able to develop a method to manipulate the size of the white dots. The closer a white dot locates toward the center, the bigger it is and vice versa. You should try to solve this problem by simple coding. Two examples are shown in the following:
Plagiarism
You must write the program on your own. Do not copy codes from any other sources including your classmates. If you are found to copy code from others, you will receive no mark in this assignment.
Randomization
Please make sure that the visual effects generated by your program can be randomly change in every time the program is executed.
To achieve randomization, use the function of random(). By providing two input parameter A and B, random() should return a random number (in floating point) in between A and B where A and B can be integer or floating point and can be either positive number or negative number. In short, the usage of random() is:
float myRandomNum = random(A, B);
Submission
Working group one-person
Deadline Class 201A - Wednesday of week 7, Mar 15, 6:00 p.m.
Class 201B,C,D - Thursday of week 7, Mar 16, 6:00 p.m.
Submit the pde file of processing to moodle. A submission folder will be ready to collect your file before the deadline
