Week 3 Assignment

Concept

I aimed to build on my previous assignment by creating flowers using the lollipop example from class and crafting a bee inspired by the bouncing ball technique. Having already created a tree, I wanted to continue developing this theme.

Sketch

press to add bees

I chose the color of flowers to be this pink/magenta shade because there use to be a similar flower that would bloom very high we could never pick them as kids.

Highlight
My original bee looked like this. I couldn’t figure out how to get the bee to look like how I originally wanted it to. But then I remembered that I could -/+  this.x/this.y and it worked. I’m happy with the current bee especially since looking back, this one just looks weird.

show() {
  // bee's wing
  fill("#D5EBEE");
  stroke("#EBFAFC");
  ellipse(this.x - 3, this.y - 15, 15, 23);
  ellipse(this.x + 6, this.y - 15, 17, 24);

  // bee's body
  stroke("#E7D534");
  strokeWeight(3);
  fill("#FFEB3B");
  ellipse(this.x, this.y, 40, 30);
  
  // bee's stripes
  fill("rgb(15,15,15)");
  noStroke();
  ellipse(this.x, this.y, 3, 30);
  ellipse(this.x - 8, this.y, 3, 25);
  ellipse(this.x + 8, this.y, 3, 25);
  ellipse(this.x + 15, this.y, 3, 20);

  // bees' eye
  stroke(0);
  point(this.x - 15, this.y - 2);
}

I got the petals to rotate from Fasya Rahmadhani ‘s rotating strawberries.

Reflection

Overall I’m happy with the final piece. I did want to add the push/pop function to add/remove bee’s but they ended up just following each other. When I added the bee after the flowers the flowers shifted, I used chat gbt to figure out what went wrong, I ended up needing to add push(); and Pop(); to restore the transformation and style to isolate them from translate() and rotate().

For future improvements I wish to make It way more interactive. like adding (which I added after professor’s comments)or removing bees but also using the mouse pressed and key pressed function for visual changes.