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Creating Visual Rhythm in Processing

I’m teaching Processing to art students at UCSD and the course’s professor has basically asked them to create visual rhythm. I made a few sketches to show a simple way in which this might be accomplished.

shape_function

#1 shape_function.pde
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This sketch creates repetitive shapes using a for-loop in a user-defined function.


rhythm

#2 rhythm2.pde
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A simple sketch to illustrate how things can appear to move with independent rhythms.


rhythm

#3 rhythm.pde
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A slightly more involved sketch that combines the two above.


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Comments

Comment from rob
Time: May 31, 2009, 8:17 pm

When doing this kind of animation stuff, I guess you could also use the millis() function – which returns the number of milliseconds since the sketch started running – instead of keeping track of the frame count yourself.

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