Pixels

Pixels are fun to work with, especially because I was an illustrator and now I can find ways to combine my drawings with my code.

I faced challenges when I had to alter the colors of my images using either tint or the filter functions. When I ran sketches using these filters my web browser would crash. I asked a couple people, and they said that its because the web browser itself is limited. I think I want to start to explore visual studio code now.

https://editor.p5js.org/Inkreas/sketches/GI6EGOZwU

In this particular sketch I tried to use a BLUR filter and control its blurriness with perlin noise. I think the combination of movement and constantly randomizing variables put a lot of stress on the web browser.

Another challenge that I faced was resizing the (x,y) position when get-ting pixels from a pixel region. I learned that the pixels are not taken from the image being displayed but directly from the image itself. The only way I could imagine reorienting the size is to have the images sized correctly before adding it to the code.

Finally the biggest technical difficulty was trying to fit and see the images on my web browser. The images I draw are pretty large and I don't want to reduce the quality. But I can't see what is happening with my sketch. I hope to ask how could I resize the web browser so I can see the entire image.

I completed a crucial aspect of my fish which is the overall shape. It was bothering me that people associated my fish with tadpoles, larvae, or sperm, so it was satisfying to put this issue at rest.