{"id":722,"date":"2017-02-28T02:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2017-02-28T02:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:35:53","slug":"nature-of-code-physics-and-animation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Nature of Code &#8211; physics and animation project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for my final project I would like to go in an\u00a0extraterrestrial direction . . . .<\/p>\n<p>I will be\u00a0using a particle system to create an interactive planetarium that I can project onto a ceiling. My basic idea is to have points on a night sky that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>move slowly in a\u00a0relative plane<\/li>\n<li>are grouped into organic clusters<\/li>\n<li>are of multiple size<\/li>\n<li>twinkle or some variety of brightness<\/li>\n<li>have some fun user interaction that effects either a portion of the particles, or maybe all of them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During a recent NYU dumpster diving trip, I came across two 6500lumen christie projectors. I think this will be a fun way to use them! I am lucky to have 14&#8242; high ceilings in my apartment, so my ceiling will be a perfect place to project some star fields.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-724\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_5791-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-724 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_5791-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_5791-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_5791-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_5791-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone crazy threw these massive projectors out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the user input, I would like to keep it simple. Something about a big trackball seems planetary \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Nature of Code examples I would like to take advantage of are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attraction forces<\/li>\n<li>Particle Systems<\/li>\n<li>Motion\u00a0acceleration forces<\/li>\n<li>Fluid resistance?<\/li>\n<li>Magnetism?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for my final project I would like to go in an\u00a0extraterrestrial direction . . . . I will be\u00a0using a particle system to create an interactive planetarium that I can project onto a ceiling. My basic idea is to have points on a night sky that: move slowly in a\u00a0relative plane are grouped into organic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/?p=722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nature of Code &#8211; physics and animation project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronparsekian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}