I succeeded in learning to draw isometric cubes (using scale-shear-rotate) in p5 and to use p5.func and createLoop to make a seamless loop. I didn’t totally understand the t01 calculation in Golan’s code – it seems like it’s figuring out what frame we are on and normalizing it, but I would have thought the 3000 is loop duration*1000, but changing that value completely bugged out the animation so I assume it’s related to framerate in some way. it’s the same as doing animLoop.progress (where are we in the animation from 0 to 1), but they don’t play well together for GIF export because they may be phase-offset.
I took a long time to decide what to do for my loop, as I wanted to try to do something more conceptual, but in the end went with this simple visual. Could have better heeded the “This is a mini-project, so KEEP IT SIMPLE” note.
It’s not a very complex animation, but it’s elegant and works well. An easy strategy to make it more visually impressive could just be to make a grid of the module I’ve built (taking a cue from our references), perhaps shifting the timing of each row so it’s a cascade / canon of sorts. Edit: Added this.
