Assignment 4: Generative Text

For this assignment I began with my first iteration which just basically drew out my desired shape onto my text outline using texttopoint. I followed a similar theme from my past assignments of working with rainbow squares, just because I like to explore how I can manipulate the movement of this same shape and its random colors to make different generative art. I also played with using cosine to see how differently my rects would move when I began adding interaction

My next step was adding interaction. For this part, I mainly followed professor’s code. I changed the values so it can correspond to an outcome that I was aiming for which is to be rigid in its movements, as the rectangles on their own feel quite stiff, so I wanted the rigidness to be consistent. After manipulating the values and adding some of my own math, I ended up with this final outcome:

I ended up removing the value that causes the rectangles to move slightly, because I liked how it looked in place ( like a glitch effect). I also made my rectangles smaller since the word was fussy to look at when everything was too close to each other. I also attempted to reuse cosine in noise so that when the mouse hovers over the letters, the rectangles expand in a cool pattern.