To recreate a Casey Reas piece, I first watched https://reas.com/compendium_lecture/ in order to understand the thought process behind his pieces. This is the reference I used. I found a great source through the p5.js reference page: https://p5js.org/examples/simulate-particles.html, which helped me grasp the main idea of this particle system. Here is my sketch:

For my final project, I am going to be making a face that is complied with many other smaller faces. Throughout the semester I have created projects that all include the idea of a smiley face or an adaptation of one. I have felt compelled to continue this series for the final assignment. This assignment will include arrays that make up portions of the face as well as a slew of colors and shapes that will give my project a colorful and unique contrast. I hope that my assignment will provide a finale to my previous projects, while also showing improvement and creativity.

I did not have enough time to figure everything out for this assignment so I just included the arrays I’ve made. I plan on recreating this piece of art that I already attempted to do once, but with my classmate's extended classes. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDhpBQOj4k8/ Here is my very very very rough draft: https://editor.p5js.org/esba1938/sketches/DYrXjVXyZ

The references I used for this assignment were: Here is my extension for the object: https://editor.p5js.org/esba1938/sketches/vdn37fPj1 My extension is a face that has eyes that are rolled and a tongue sticking out, all using noise/seed for randomization of colors and sizes.

For this assignment, I upgraded last week's smile-catching game with the use of classes. Here is my new game: I used two classes, scoring, and editable face. The scoring class includes the variables numEaten and numMissed to represent the numerical value that is associated with how the player catches…

This week I created a game based on a simple idea complied from Google and class. Here is my game called Smiley Catcher: In class, we discussed the idea of a bucket catching moving balls, so I began by Googling some ideas. …

For this week's homework assignment, we were told to choose a work by Tim Szetela and replicate it best we could. The work I chose was: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDhpBQOj4k8/ Here are my 2 drafts and my final attempt to recreate: My 2nd Draft: My attempt at a recreation (not perfect):

My codepen: I incorporated: → A circle grid with nested loops → mouseX and mouseY to paint a smiley onto the canvas in various locations → created a button that changes its background color when the mouse hovers over it → used mouseIsPressed to change both the colors of the grid circles and make the smiley face appear each time the mouse is pressed

This week's homework was based on creating a piece utilizing movement commands. Here is my interpretation: This work was inspired by the faces of my last homework piece, but I did not have an artwork that I used as a reference. While I learned commands for creating a smiley face, it was challenging to apply this to a moving object, which is why I decided to stick to abstract shapes. I enjoy the randomization and movement included in this homework, which also made it challenging.