Looking Outwards – 04 – Shannon Case

sketch

//Shannon Case
//Section D
//scase@andrew.cmu.edu
//Project 04


function setup() {
    createCanvas(640,480);
    background(200);
   }

 function draw() {

var x0 = 130; //initial x position
var y0 = height/2 - 60; //initial y position
var x1 = 130; //end initial x position
var y1 = height/2 + 60; //end initial y position
var incX = 22.5; //how much x moves by
var incY = 20; //how much y moves by

var nextBox = 180; //moves to next box



 background('pink');
 strokeWeight(3);
 stroke('green');
 for (i = 0; i<3; i++){
 	line(x0,y0,x1,y1); 	
 	x0 += nextBox; //moves to second gift box
 	x1 += nextBox;
 }

//horizontal line
 x0 = 130 + incX;
 y0 = height/2 - 2*incY;
 x1 = 130 - incX;
 y1 = height/2 + 2*incY;
 stroke('red');
 for (i = 0; i<3; i++){
 	line(x0,y0,x1,y1); 	
 	x0 += nextBox; //moves to second gift box
 	x1 += nextBox;
 }

//first red line
 x0 = 130 + 2*incX; //moves to right by increment*2
 y0 = height/2 - incY;
 x1 = 130 - 2*incX;
 y1 = height/2 + incY;
 stroke('red');
 for (i = 0; i<3; i++){
 	line(x0,y0,x1,y1); 	
 	x0 += nextBox; 
 	x1 += nextBox;
 }

//vertical green line
 x0 = 130 + 3*incX;
 y0 = height/2;
 x1 = 130 - 3*incX;
 y1 = height/2;
 stroke('green');
 for (i = 0; i<3; i++){
 	line(x0,y0,x1,y1); 	
 	x0 += nextBox;
 	x1 += nextBox;
 }

//box
 stroke('white')
 noFill();
 x0 = 0;
 for (i = 0; i < 3; i++){
 	rect(60+x0, height/2 - 60, 140, 120); 
 	x0 += nextBox; 
 }

 	noLoop();

 	println();
}

For this assignment I chose to use for loops to do a string drawing of some presents. I wanted to experiment with making string drawings that were representative of real things. I’m also super excited for the holidays to come and wanted to make a piece about it 🙂