Research/Credits to

This was some initial researching into the sketches on Open Processing which involve sound. To be honest, it seems like sound is a lacking component in the sketches up there - they either seem to lack sound or lack incorporating it well. I don't know if this scares me or not - maybe this is an indication it's a hard thing to achieve properly - challenge accepted.


This sketch is a little worm that eats the food that appears on mouse click. The worm follows mouseX and mouseY coordinates and you drag it to the food. There's a munch sound when it eats the food and a different munch sound as it moves along - the tail grows with each bit of food it eats. I kind of like this sketch as it's a little humourous and has very obvious cause and effect of the visual and audial components, but it has too much control and not enough interesting interaction I think.



This sketch appears to shatter and fall away on each click and is accompanied by a loud shatter sound. I like the complexness of the visual component, but am not so sold on the repetitiveness.



This sketch responds to mouse interaction - it has no sound, despite what the title suggests, but is very pretty and I like the interaction between the sketch and mouse. It's enough to be able to control it, but not so much that it's boring.



This sketch is interesting - you create randomised ellipses on the mouse click which, if you click again, produce a (rather irritating) sound, and (sometimes?) also produces extra ellipses. I got a bit confused by how you create more ellipses that scatter, as it seems a bit random, but I like the concept.


Some other research:

http://blog.datasingularity.com/?p=335 - helped me with understanding of particle systems

http://processing.org/learning/topics/simpleparticlesystem.html - the particle code that I borrowed with crediting to use in my work

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1268810196 - investigating how to create a particle reaction

http://processing.org/learning/pvector/ - understanding the whole vector concept of particles

http://webphysics.iupui.edu/JITTworkshop/152Basics/vectors/vectors.html - more vector explanation - this one was more helpful