For whatever reason (probably math) the idea of drawing clusters in a radiating pattern has eluded me in this challenge. I’ve had a few false starts but could never quite figure it out how it’s done - until today! I took my learnings from the rubber stamp recreations from last week and managed to figure it out. In fact, I made so many fun discoveries as I tweaked the code that I’m going to share a series of sketches around this theme this week. I love when such simple code produces such beautiful results. Also, as a change from last week, I’m hoping to require minimal user input to create these drawings, relying on the computer to do the work instead.

Sketch:

https://editor.p5js.org/chelseamwatson/present/VKc4TlcsW

Drawings:

Code:

x1 = 0;
y1 = 0;

function setup() {
  createCanvas(700, 700);
  background(50);
  stroke(255);
}

function draw() {

  x1 = x1 + 1;
  y1 = y1 + 1;
  lines = random(20);
  rot = random(1);

  for (x = 0; x < 360; x = x + lines) {
    push();
    translate(width / 2, height / 2);
    rotate(radians(x) + rot);
    point(x1, y1);
    pop();
  }

  if (x1 > 150) {
    noLoop();
  }
}

100x100 Computational Design Challenge

Day 56 - Star Map

Sketch:

Drawings:

Code: