Carly Sacco – Project 04 – String Art

sketch

//Carly Sacco
//Section C
//csacco@andrew.cmu.edu
//Project 4

var x1 = 5;
var x2 = 9;
var y1 = 5;



function setup() {
	createCanvas(400, 300);
}

function draw() {
	background(0);
	
	for (var i = x1; i < 400; i += y1){
		
	  //blue curves
	  stroke(95, 158, 176); 
	  line(i + 200, 300, i * x2 + mouseX, i); 
	  line(i + 200, 300, -i * x2 + -mouseX, i);
	  
	 //green
	  stroke(109, 199, 111);
	  line(i, 0, x1 * 80, i);
	  
	 //orange
	  stroke(214, 56, 39); 
	  //line(i + 400, 0,  -x2 * 10, i * 5); 
	  line(i, 300,  0, i);
	 
	  //purple
	  stroke(173, 142, 212);
	  line(i * x1, y1, 500, i * 10);
	  
	} 
}

Once I had made the blue curves that work oppositely of each other they reminded me of wings of a bird. I then decided to make the other curves mimic the shape of a peacock’s feather and chose the colors accordingly.