February 29
- Presentations
- PlotDevice Q&A
- PlotDevice exercises
- experiment with the size and background commands to control the ‘canvas’
- draw a rectangle (rect) and a circle (oval)
- draw a grid of shapes (either manually or using the grid command)
- use the poly command to draw a series of regular polygons (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon) and label each using the text command
- set the background color using hex-strings, RGB values, and color names
- use the fill command to change the ‘ink’ color and draw shapes with various levels of grey
- experiment with adding an additional 'opacity' argument when setting a fill and note how overlapping shapes become translucent
- try using different blend modes to affect how overlapping colors are combined
- set a stroke color to outline shapes
- use the radius argument to the poly and arc commands to draw a series of concentric circles/squares
- try using the random command to choose positions, sizes, colors, etc.
- use the
WIDTH and HEIGHT constants with random to choose coordinates that will be visible on the canvas
- draw a smiley face using a combination of arcs and polygons
Assignment
- develop 3 different ideas for the A Thousand Suns project.
- read National Geographic article (and post 3 discussion questions using the tag ‘R2’)