20200207 `quil` sketch

Draft of 2020.02.07

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This is a variant on the one from yesterday, where I’ve made three rotating layers of lattices in cyan, magenta and yellow. It’s a bit more explicitly reminiscent of a printed halftone.

I spent far too much time fiddling with the color definition arguments and reading the docs about the quil API trying to get both the blend-mode and color (especially alpha) levels “right”. I still want to see visible green pixels where yellow and cyan overlap, and blue where magenta and cyan overlap, but there’s something I’m not quite getting about the various levels and transparencies.

In any case:

That’s it. That’s all it does, for now.

Update

I couldn’t tolerate the muddiness of the colors, so I spent some leisure time fiddling the magic constants until the appearance was more to my liking. Now I can see some orange, some red, some green, some blue, and so on, despite the fact that I’m only drawing cyan, magenta and yellow circles. That was the original motivation….

Source

(ns negative-space-quil.core
  (:require [quil.core :as q :include-macros true]
            [quil.middleware :as m]
            ))

(defn setup []
  (q/frame-rate 30)
  (q/color-mode :hsb)
  (q/blend-mode :blend)
  (q/ellipse-mode :radius)
  {:y-lattice
    { :width 6
      :height 6
      :color (q/color 44 100 255 100)
      :radius 3
      :angle (rand-int 100)
      :offset [0 0]}
  :c-lattice
    { :width 7
      :height 7
      :color (q/color 128 230 255 130)
      :radius 3
      :angle (rand-int 100)
      :offset [0 0]}
   :m-lattice
    { :width 8
      :height 8
      :color (q/color 214 200 255 255)
      :radius 3
      :angle (rand-int 100)
      :offset [0 0]}
      })

(defn update-state [state]
  (-> state
    (update-in , [:y-lattice :angle] #(+ 0.002 %))
    (update-in , [:m-lattice :angle] #(+ -0.004 %))
    (update-in , [:c-lattice :angle] #(+ 0.006 %))
    ))

(defn draw-lattice
  [lattice]
  (let [w (:width lattice)
        h (:height lattice)
        r (:radius lattice)
        c (:color lattice)
        angle (:angle lattice)
        offset (:offset lattice)
        scale-x (* 1.5 (/ (q/width) w))
        scale-y (* 1.5 (/ (q/height) w))
        ]
    (q/no-stroke)
    (q/fill c)
    (q/with-translation offset
      (q/with-rotation [angle]
        (doseq [x (range (- scale-x) scale-x)
                y (range (- scale-y) scale-y)]
          (q/ellipse (* x w) (* y h) (+ (/ x 10) r) (+ (/ x 10) r))
          )))))

(defn draw-state [state]
  (let [yellow (:y-lattice state)
        magenta (:m-lattice state)
        cyan (:c-lattice state)
        ]
    (q/background 255)
    (q/with-translation [(/ (q/width) 2) (/ (q/height) 2)]
      (draw-lattice magenta)
      (draw-lattice cyan)
      (draw-lattice yellow)
      )))

; this function is called in index.html
(defn ^:export run-sketch []
  (q/defsketch negative-space-quil
    :host "20200207-quil"
    :size [300 300]
    :setup setup
    :update update-state
    :draw draw-state
    :middleware [m/fun-mode]
    ))

; uncomment this line to reset the sketch:
; (run-sketch)

20200207 quil sketch

Update

Source

20200207 `quil` sketch