Where Do I Find New Ideas | August 17, 2024
This Week's Highlight
I am back with another p5.js tutorial and this one was a big hit!
In this tutorial, I used a simple trick to make this pretty cool-looking collage! This trick is nothing more than using a get() function, which allows you to get color information of a specific pixel or a region of pixels.
I showed two quick examples here, but there is so much more you can do with it. As a potential follow-up tutorial, I am thinking of making a similar one but adding some animation. What do you think? What else would be cool?
What Inspires Me
I recently learned about Chris Barber (@code_rgb) after he tagged to thank me for my slime molds tutorial. His slime mold simulations piece (left image) is not only beautiful, but it is made with 100,000 particles vs 4,000 on mine!
After checking out his work, Adrift (right image) caught my attention with 10,000 boids and lots of small rectangles. This rectangular pattern, I believe, is a part of his design, though I quickly learned that it is called a quadtree.
A quadtree is a way to organize a 2D space by recursively subdividing a region into four smaller quadrants, making it easy to find and manage things in a large area.
Why is this interesting? Well, this might be his secret sauce for working with 10,000 boids without making his program run super slow.
So how does it work? I'm working on a video on exactly that so keep an eye out for it!
Ideas, ideas, ideas
Many of you have DM'ed me asking where do I get my ideas from. I made this video to share my lessons after completing 100 videos and in Lesson #5 I shared the different sources I get my ideas from.
But honestly, I get them from everywhere - mostly the internet. I spend more time that I'd like to admit just browsing the web and hopefully find something that sparks new ideas. This week's tutorial came right after I saw the following post.
How about you? Where do you get your ideas?
Until next week!
Patt