Let’s Try Something New | August 24, 2024
This Week's Highlight
Another big hit this week! It seems like you guys really enjoy tutorials where I show how to manipulate an image.
If you are into graphic design, you are probably familiar with the image masking technique, where you show or hide a portion of an image based on a shape of another image. In this tutorial, we use a p5.Image method called mask() to do just that.
What Inspires Me
I am a mechanical engineer at heart and my jaw dropped after seeing this piece by generative artist Michael Kozlowski.
Empath #01 is a mechanically animated generative art with over 2,000 moving parts. Purely powered by gravity—no electronics, no motor, no cords.
It is so beautifully done. Check out this tweet for a full video.
Code with Me
As I mentioned in my first year wrap-up video, I will be experimenting with new types of content every other Friday and see what sticks. A friend of mine told me that he puts on my videos so that there is something playing in the background while he works and I was like huh...that's interesting 🤔
So this Friday, I am presenting you with a Code with Me video!
This is me working through the code from start to finish as I prepared for the next coding tutorial on the Quadtree data structure (to be released next Tuesday!)
I struggled quite a bit through the code so you will really see the behind the scene of how I debugged my code in real-time!
Until next week!
Patt