Jai Sawkar – Project 11: Generative Landscape

Sketch

//Jai Sawkar
//jsawkar@andrew.cmu.edu
//Section C
//Project 11: Generative Landscape

var objectSpeed = 0.00005; //speed of objects
var mountainDetail = 0.007; //threshold of variance in mountains

var waterDetail = 0.002 //threshold of variance in water

var xMove = 520 //initial point

var spec = []; //snow 


function setup() {
    createCanvas(480, 480); 
    for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++){ //setting up for loop that determines bounds of snow
    	var specX = random(0, width); //determines x 
        var specY = random(0, height/2); //determines y
        spec[i] = makeSpec(specX, specY); //uses i from for loop
    }
    print(spec);
}


function draw() {
    background(249, 233, 161); 

    drawMountains(); //calls mountain object
 
	displaySpec(); //calls the snow

    fill(228, 118, 47);
    noStroke();
	ellipse(width/2, height/2, 95);

	// calls water object
	drawWater();

	


	//calls text
	drawText();
	xMove -= .1 //moves text

	if (xMove < -90) { //makes it so that when text goes off screen, it reappears
		xMove = 480
	}
}

function drawText() {
	//makes text of album
	fill(0)
	textFont('Courier');
	textSize(24);
	textAlign(CENTER); 
	text('K A U A I', xMove, 30)
	textSize(8);
	text('WITH JADEN SMITH AS', xMove, 40)
	text('"THE BOY"', xMove, 50)
	textSize(24);
	text('G A M B I N O', xMove, 70)
}

function drawMountains() { //makes generative mountain
	push();
    beginShape(); 
    fill(90, 57, 27);
    vertex(0,height/2 + 50); //makes height of vertex of mountain
    for (var x = 0; x < width; x++) {
        var t = (x * mountainDetail) + (millis() * objectSpeed); //allows object to be generative based on time
        var y = map(noise(t), 0, 1, 0, height); //remaps values to fit in desired area
        vertex(x, y-15); //final vertex
    }

    vertex(width, height/2 + 50); //final vertex out of for loop
    endShape();
    pop();
}

function makeSpec(specX, specY){ //makes object for snow
    var makeSpec = {x: specX,
                y: specY, //calls y coordinate
                draw: drawSpec} //allows it to be called to draw
    return makeSpec;
}

function drawSpec(){
	fill('WHITE')
	ellipse(this.x, this.y, 3) //makes circles
}

function displaySpec(){
    for(i = 0; i < spec.length; i++){ 
        spec[i].draw(); //allows spec to be displayed
    }
}


function drawWater(){  //makes water
fill(51,107,135,255);
	
push()

  beginShape();
  noStroke();
  fill(170, 210, 241);
  for (var x = 0; x < width; x++) { //makes height of vertex of mountain
      var t = (x * waterDetail) + (millis() * objectSpeed); //allows object to be generative based on time
      var y = map(noise(t), 0,1, height/2 - 20, height/2 + 50); //remaps values to fit in desired area
      vertex(0, 900); //inital vertex
      vertex(1000,900); //final vertex
      vertex(x, y);
  }
  endShape();

pop()

}

This week, I used the Generative Landscape project to create an album cover of one of my favorite artists, Childish Gambino. I began with the initial cover, which is a Hawaiian sunset abstracted into three objects, the sky, the water, and a semi-circle. I first created the water to be generated randomly, followed by adding mountains in the back to create depth. Moreover, I used a javaScript Object to create snow! It was used to juxtapose the calm nature of Kauai with Gambino’s other, more rowdy album, Because the Internet. Lastly, I made the title for the album slide in & out of the landscape.