background(0) ?

From the start of my experiments I have made the background black and the stroke white, I thought I would try flipping the previous sketch around and seeing what it would look like with a white background and black stroke.. turns out not so nice. I think it makes it look cheaper and I don't like the fade effect against the white. I think I'll stick to a black background and experiment with stroke colour later on.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=35840

moving on..

In this sketch I still only have 3 lines that move up and down but now I have added in a fade rectangle so that it gives it something a bit more and also an acelleration so that I will have more control on how I want the particles to settle back down into place and how quickly they rise up. I also changed the solid lines to particles and I was drawn to them originally when looking through other peoples sketches on Open Processing.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=35837

The first step..

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=35835

This is my 'step 1' of what will hopefully work out to be a good way to achieve the aesthetic I am after. It just consists of 3 lines that move up and down with mouseY and settle back to position when mouseMoving= false.

Development

I think maybe the best way to go about this is to make lines and then when the mouse is moved curves are created. To do this I will begin by making 3 lines across the width of the screen that move up and down depending on the mouseY position and when the mouse stops moving they settle back to their original resting position and then take it in steps to work it into a final product... This is going to be hard..

Random generated curves

 

                                    http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=35833

Here instead of using curveVertex I have used beziers which are randomly generated and fade out, this has only a little mouse control however and is not much of an interaction!

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http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=36215

This is the same sort of idea when the mouse is pressed the lines change from black to white on a grey background. There are also a larger amount of lines.

mouseClicked

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/checkVisual.php?visualID=36213

I was just having a play around with mouse click and changing the colour when the mouse was pressed from red to blue. I think its not really what I want to incorporate into my final sketch as the colour change could come off looking a bit tacky.