Processing – (Not so) Glitchy Gravity

Posted By: Jordan Parsons

Well I’m trying to wrap my head around vectors in processing because I am not giving up on my flocking simulation and vectors seem to be key to the navigation. So I am following some tutorials by Daniel Shiffman. They are some very nice tutorials and I worked on adapting his gravity tutorial, so that the objects rotate, and move side to side and decelerate when they hit walls. I am having some serious issues with glitching when they settle to the floor and every now an then one goes right through a wall. I can’t really explain it. As always any tips or thoughts are appreciated and welcome. By the way hit space to smack the boids up in the air. http://www.jordanparsons.com/processing/gravity_v1/

Edit:
Thanks to Adam Thomas I made a series of changes to the code, and its much more stable. I also added a holder class so that I can implement the boids with a for loop instead of by hand. The new source is bellow, the old is still avaliable if you check the old app above. Here is the new version.

http://www.jordanparsons.com/processing/gravity_v2/

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Processing – Line Generator

Posted By: Jordan Parsons

I just started working with Processing, and have developed a few basic applications. This one is really simple but its kinda fun in a geeky sort of way. The basic premise is that is uses user input of the size of the window to generate random lines of increasing white levels that then cycles back to black.

http://jordanparsons.com/processing/line_generator_2_12_08/

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