Concept:
- Time management and planning are two of the most important skills a college student should have. However, I often find myself torn between needing to finish my assignments and wanting to take a step back and just relax. It is during these moments when I desperately wish for someone/something else to decide for me my plans for the day. Therefore, I decided to make a magic 8 ball that decides for what you should do, who you should do it with, where you should do it, and until when should you do it at the click of the mouse. The program will be based on the generative text exercise we did in class.
Highlight:
- While I didn’t do anything too innovative for this project, I am proud of having incorporated elements that I’ve incorporated in my past projects. For example, I utilized the dist() function within the mousePressed() function to determine if the user clicked on the 8 ball, just as I did to determine whether players clicked on the orbs for last week’s assignment.
//click 8 ball for new day plan
function mousePressed() {
if (dist(mouseX, mouseY, width / 2, 320) < 40) {
loop();
}
}
Sketch:
Click on the magic 8 ball!
Future Improvements:
- In the future, it would be interesting to expand the list of words to be randomized in the generative sentence so that there is more variation. I would also like to explore more efficient ways to split the words, perhaps with a loop.