Springy Creatures | Learning Processing | 2015
Team : Shruti KNR , Sergey
Smaller - Found: January 1st, 1970
Where: PDP-11, model 40 minicomputer in Copenhagen
Characteristics: Particle with fully transparent body and bright green edges that form 12 spikes which help 'Smallers' attach to each other. Smaller may form a connected pair, and no more than one connection is accepted by a Smaller. They are extremely attracted by S-Glucose particle as this seems to be their primary food source. Upon consuming enough of the S-Glucose, Smallers produce Particles.
Creating Behaviours of Micro Creatures using Processing
The Tale of S-Glucose and where this creature was discovered
S-Glucose - Found : January 1st, 1970
Where: PDP-11, model 40 minicomputer in Copenhagen
Characteristics: Sugary particle with short life time approximated at 6000 ms. Somewhere around 5000 milliseconds age it begins to evaporate quickly. Its color “in rest” is a semi-transparent red. Upon being consumed by a Smaller particle it changes its colour to semi-transparent yellow.
OUR PROCESS
We went through the process of creating these “creatures” in incremental steps. At first, we were interested in simple behaviour of moving around the screen and connecting together using a spring action. Later, as we got better and better with Processing, we coded interaction between different creatures.
Finally, when the core of the behaviour was done and we had some time left, we introduced some more detailed characteristics like the production of Particles and colour change for S-Glucose.
