• Title:

Colorful Spiral

• Sketch link:

https://editor.p5js.org/se2226/sketches/wOAgzfWAV

• One sentence description:

Particles in motion + camera angles!

• Summary (250-500 words):

For this assignment, I really wanted to improve upon what I submitted for my assignment 4 - particles assignment. I was really fascinated by the way particles can be used to represent rather complex things rather easily. So I decided to take what I did for my previous assignment, add some color to the particles, make it more dynamic, and I also included a camera angle feature to show how the spiral will look from different angles. It felt really cool, and I am glad about the result.

• Process: How did you make this? What did you struggle with? What were you able to implement easily and what was difficult?:

I think the hardest part what making the assembly of the particles feel more “real” and “natural”. I think my previous sketch was a bit more predictable and “flat” in a way. To solve for this, refer to lines 80-89, where I needed to get a code that distributes particles around a central point in a circular (or spiral) pattern while adding pulsating and oscillating effects in both the radial and vertical directions. This dramatically helped create a more lively and dynamic scene where particles move in an engaging. I need LLM help for that however.

• Next steps: If you had more time to work on this, what would you do next?:

I think I really love the concept of particles being used to create complex things, so I will continue to play around with that. I also love camera angles too!