Project 10-Chickoff

sketch

//Cora Hickoff
//Section D
//chickoff@andrew.cmu.edu
//Project 10

var terrain = [];

function setup() {

    createCanvas(480, 400); 
    frameRate(13);
    
    // create an initial collection of terrains
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        var rx = random(width);
        //"terrain" is the mountainous 
        //landscape at bottom of screen
        terrain[i] = makeTerrain(rx);
    }
}

function draw() {
    background(190, 140, 20); 
  
    updateAndDisplayTerrain();
    removeTerrainThatHasSlippedOutOfView();
    addNewTerrainWithSomeRandomProbability(); 

    drawTerrain(); 
}

function updateAndDisplayTerrain() {
    // Update the terrain's position, and display them.
    for (var i = 0; i < terrain.length; i++) {
        terrain[i].move();
        terrain[i].display();
    }
}

function removeTerrainThatHasSlippedOutOfView() {

    var terrainToKeep = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < terrain.length; i++) {
        if (terrain[i].x + terrain[i].breadth > 0) {
            terrainToKeep.push(terrain[i]);
        }
    }
    terrain = terrainToKeep; // remember the surviving terrain
}

function addNewTerrainWithSomeRandomProbability() {
    // With a very high probability, add a new terrain to the end.
    var newTerrainLikelihood = 1; 
    if (random(0,3) < newTerrainLikelihood) {
        terrain.push(makeTerrain(width));
    }
}

// method to update position of terrain every frame
function terrainMove() {
    this.x += this.speed;
}
    
// draw the mountain range
function terrainDisplay() {
    
    var floorHeight = 400;
    var bHeight = this.nFloors * floorHeight; 
    
        fill(154, 176, 119); 
        stroke(210, 164, 54); 
        strokeWeight(random(0,9));
        push();
        translate(this.x, height - 40);

        curveVertex(84,  91);
        curveVertex(68,  19);
        curveVertex(21,  107);
        curveVertex(0, -bHeight);

        stroke(74, 115, 119, 80); 
        strokeWeight(random(0,9));

    for (var i = 0; i < this.nFloors; i++) {

        beginShape();
        curveVertex(5, i * floorHeight);
        curveVertex(floorHeight, 34);
        curveVertex(68,  1);
        curveVertex(21,  107);
        curveVertex(400, 100);
        curveVertex(32, 100);
        endShape();

        beginShape();
        curveVertex(04, i * floorHeight);
        curveVertex(84,  91);
        curveVertex(68,  19);
        curveVertex(21,  107);
        curveVertex(3, 100);
        curveVertex(32, 100);
        endShape();
    }
        pop();

}

function makeTerrain(birthLocationX) {
    var trn = {x: birthLocationX,
                breadth: 50,
                speed: -1.0,
                nFloors: round(random(2,8)),
                move: terrainMove,
                display: terrainDisplay}
    return trn;
}

function drawTerrain() {

    fill(230, 160, 190);
    
    beginShape(); 
    for (var x = 10; x < width; x++) {
        var t = (x) + (millis() * 40);
        var y = map(noise(t), 0, 30, 10, height);
        vertex(x, y); 
    }
    endShape();

    //moon
    fill(240, 230, 74, 250);
    strokeWeight(random(0,9));
    ellipse(0, 0, width - 1, height - 1);

    //crater 1
    fill(250, 245, 140, 100)
    strokeWeight(random(0,4));
    ellipse(100, 23, 33, 33);

    //crater 1 faded edge
    fill(250, 245, 230, 100)
    strokeWeight(random(0,4));
    ellipse(100, 23, 23, 26);

    //crater 2
    fill(250, 245, 140, 100)
    strokeWeight(random(0,4));
    ellipse(123, 93, 33);

    //crater 3
    fill(250, 245, 230, 78)
    strokeWeight(random(0,4));
    ellipse(23, 53, 53, 46);

    //crater 4
    fill(250, 245, 230, 78)
    strokeWeight(random(0,4));
    ellipse(23, 153, 13, 16);

    //crater 5
    fill(250, 245, 140, 100)
    strokeWeight(random(0,4));
    ellipse(180, 0, 30, 30);

}

When I started this project, I knew that I wanted to create a landscape that involved nature. I wasn’t sure where to go with this until I started thinking about the idea of doing the opposite of a really lush landscape, and create something a bit more dead or barren. When I sketched, I thought about the idea of an asteroid, planet, or even our moon coming a little too close to Earth, enough to hurt the organisms living there.

I knew that to create this uneasy feeling, I’d have to play with color as well as a dizzying/shaky effect, which usually signals that something is wrong, and not everything is as it should be.