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String-art inspired rainbow graphics

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 20, 2022
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Line art, showing lines of varying hue and semi transparent

Create line art in processing, based on a 500×500 grid. Explore transparency effects.

Tags colour, coloured lines, for loop, horizontal lines, line art, line-art, pattern, processing, project, project rainbow, rainbow, vertical lines

Beginner Colours Processing Project Rainbow

Create colour effect examples

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 19, 2022
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Blue and red coloured squares, after Josef Albers

Create coloured squares (after Johannes Itten) to be printed and cut out, and coloured rectangles (after Josef Albers)

Tags colour, critical thinking, critical thinking sheet, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, plan, popMatrix(), processing.org, pushMatrix(), rgb, scale, sketch, transformation

Beginner Colours Data Processing Project Rainbow

Create colour blocks per value – introduction to mapping data to colours

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Post date January 19, 2022
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Sketch of design for the blocks of value activity

Create blocks of data that represent values. Then map these blocks from a simple array.

Tags array, colour interval, colours, critical thinking sheet, data, hsb, hue, map values, mapping, PDF, print to PDF, processing.org, saturation, sketch, value

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a coloured grid in Processing

Post author By Jonathan
Post date September 2, 2020
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Learn how to create a grid of coloured shapes, plotted in Processing.

Tags cell, colour, for-loop, grid, hsb, hue, index, jitter, random, saturation, value

Beginner Colours Processing Project Rainbow

Plot 40 rectangles and circles

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Post date August 26, 2020
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Create 40 coloured rectangles, use a for-loop, the critical thinking sheet, and do some code refactoring.

Tags colour, critical thinking sheet, critical-thinking-sheet, ellipse, hsb, hue, java, projectrainbow, rectangles, refactor, refactoring, saturation, value

Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a spectrum of coloured squares in Processing (part 2)

Post author By Jonathan
Post date July 14, 2020
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Learn how to use the HSB model, and plot hundreds of coloured squares with different effects.

Tags brightness, colour, colour model, hsb, hue, processing, rectangles, saturation, squares

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a spectrum of coloured squares in Processing (part 1)

Post author By Jonathan
Post date July 14, 2020
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Create hundreds of coloured rectangles.

Tags colour model, colours, critical thinking sheet, hsb, part1, processing, rainbow, rectangles, spectrum, squares

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Create a rainbow in code

In this activity you will create a rainbow in code using software sketchbook and a language “Processing”.

Tags beginner, colours, critical-thinking-sheet, CTS, ellipse, processing, rainbow, rect, rgb, scene, tree

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Make a quick sketch before you code

Post author By Jonathan
Post date June 2, 2020
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Think about your program before you code. This post goes through the five steps of the Critical Thinking Sheet.

Tags java, layers, model, processing, rainbow, sketch

Beginner Colours Java Processing Project Rainbow

Set up the coding environment

Post author By Jonathan
Post date May 27, 2020
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This post starts you off with Processing. Download, run and draw some coloured lines. The computer programming language Processing, is a great way to start coding. You get a quick visual result from a few lines of code.

Tags beginner, colours, introduction, java, processing, programming

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