Sofia Syjuco – Project-05

Music Box Pattern
sketch

// sofia syjuco
// section A
// smsyjuco@andrew.cmu.edu
// Assignment-5-C

function setup() {
    createCanvas(400, 200);// create a cavas 
}

function draw() {
    background(244, 100, 123);//make a pink background

    pattern(0, 0); // row 1, grid 1 of pattern
    pattern(100, 0); // row 1, grid 2  of pattern
    pattern(200, 0);// row 1, grid 3, of pattern
    pattern (300, 0); // row 1, grid 4 of pattern

    pattern(0, 100); // row 2, grid 1 of pattern
    pattern(100, 100); //row 2, grid 2 of pattern
    pattern (200, 100);// row 2, grid 3 of pattern
    pattern (300, 100); // row 2, grid 4 of pattern

}

function pattern(x,y){
    fill("gold"); // fill shapes with gold color
    stroke(255); // strokes are colored white

    push();
    translate(x, y);// place pattern square in designated position
    for (var yPos = 10; yPos < 100; yPos +=10){ //draw all the horizontal lines
        line(0, yPos, 40, yPos); // lines on left
        line (40, yPos, random(41, 59), yPos-(random(2, 9)));// draw random line
        line(60, yPos, 100, yPos); // lines on right
        ellipse (60, yPos, 5, 5);// draw an ellipse
    }
    noLoop(); // don't make it repeat. Keep it static
    pop();
}

I’ve been thinking about music boxes lately, just as a kind of portable nostalgia, and thought it might be interesting to make a pattern that incorporated elements of music boxes. I wanted to make it a little non-representational, but just enough that someone looking at it wouldn’t immediately guess music box – but they could come to that conclusion if they spent a little time with it. To add subtle variation, and not make it too staid, I added a subtle variation to how the little tines are bent, as if the whole pattern is in the middle of playing some huge song.