Week 5

Week 5 Activities

• More on conditionals
• Animating things using conditionals and incrementation
• Polar Coordinates

• Time-related functions

Class notes

• Lesson 1: Interactivity and Randomness

• Lesson 2: Polar Coordinates and Timing

• Button and rubber ball example from class

• Polar coordinate example from class

• Video tutorial on State Machines in p5js
• Example sketch that triggers “snowfall” event using time functions
• Video describing trigonometric functions and polar coordinates

Some resources around visualizing time (sourced from Golan Levin’s coding courses):

• https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/29/foer.php
• https://humanclock.com/
• https://vimeo.com/27975734
• https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/christian-marclay-clock
• http://golancourses.net/2015/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/vassallo.png
• https://leebyron.com/centerclock/
• https://www.humanssince1982.com/catalogue
• https://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/26/hand-in-hand-clock-yen-wen-tseng/

For Next Week

Complete the third assignment:

• Assignment 3: Abstract Clock