Drawing Circles
You wouldn’t believe how hard this was for me to figure out.
Now that I did figure it out, I’m trying to figure out why I even felt compelled to do so. Was a discussion about circles earlier today taken too far? Perhaps…
Code based circle drawing, colors inspired by 1971 Graphic Design. (click to refresh)
I’ve been trying to solve a circle drawing problem in flash. You’d think it would be a fairly simple thing to do, but getting the code right, flexible enough and having a circle that can be drawing at a specific rate, was not so easy, at least for me.
This functionality will appear in my thesis project in a very, un-ipressive way, and most people viewing it won’t even think twice about it. It’s just another example of lots of hours going into little things that most people won’t even notice.
Isn’t that how it always is? I always think wouldn’t it be cool if I got flash to do… all by code? BUT lately I’ve been rethinking the whole dynamic thing and instead maybe the easier route is the way to go (designing it all). Being in control can be quite liberating yet somehow the RANDOM mathematical display can be so intriguing and difficult to simulate by yourself (plus there’s the whole every time is slightly different element). I do like the circles though.
I love the random element. I keep finding that the more I get into it, the more I want to allow things to happen randomly. I think part of it has to do with maintaining the balance between chaos and order. Code is so structured, and so ordered, yet when you let pick a number for you, often magic happens.