For my winter-themed artwork, I decided to do a Christmas tree. The hardest part for me was building the Christmas tree. It took me some time to figure out the angles for the Christmas tree and eventually found the angle that I wanted to make the Christmas tree. I used fill commands and got more practice using fill commands because I don’t usually use them and this project helped me more with fill commands. I used the fill commands mainly for the ornaments and the bottom of the tree. Making the ornaments on the tree was easy as I mostly copied the code from making the first ornament to make the rest of the ornaments.
For the turtle maze project, I was not able to finish it, but I learned a lot trying to figure it out. What I was trying to do was figure out a code for the turtle to always go in the middle of the opening for the maze, I was able to figure out how to get to the second part, but I wasn’t able to figure out how to continuously get the turtle to go to the middle of the opening. I learned more about lists and random parts, and I was able to figure out how to properly do what I wanted when we went over other people’s code. This project really helped me learn more, and even though I didn’t finish I understood how the code worked, and am trying to use that knowledge for other projects.
For the turtle race, I made 5 turtles that each race against each other and the result is always different. Some of the hardest things for me to do was to find the right length and an appropriate set of numbers to have the turtles move forward. I ended up going with going forward 5-8 spaces, and I thought that was good. I made a racetrack with different lanes for each turtle, and there is one lane for the referee to be in. The turtles are all different colors because I wanted them to be distinguished. I also made a copy of the code in which the race is rigged so the pink turtle always wins, but the link to that code will sadly not be included in this post.
For my interactive artwork, I made something where if you don’t click and just move the mouse around the screen, then it will draw small circles. If you click, then “have a nice day” will appear, and if you hold down the mouse button and move your mouse, then nothing will happen. This code was a little hard, as I had to use the mouse button and the boolean blocks. The boolean blocks were kind of hard for me because I have not used them a lot, and I had to figure out to use the not block, because originally I tried different boolean blocks. The mouse button was kind of easy after I had learned how to use it, and how it worked. I randomized the color of the circles and the “have a nice day”s. The pictures of the code and the end result are below.
This is the circle code.This is the rest of the code with the “have a nice day”This is the end result.
For my inspired artwork project, I chose the Flowers from Book 1 and decided to incorporate an artist’s style in my project. I wanted to use Andy Warhol’s way of having the same picture in different colors and backgrounds. The flowers were already colorful, so I wanted to make different backgrounds in the quadrants of the coordinate plane. Although the end result looks simple, it actually took a lot of code to make it. One of the hardest parts of this project for me was trying to figure out how to make the petals on the flowers, as I haven’t worked with arc blocks a lot and had to figure out how to make the petals a specific shape. Making the stem was a hassle by its self, as I wanted to randomize the color and the position of the flowers. The stem would always turn different directions and I had to spend a lot of time (a full class period) to figuring out how to make the stem stand up straight. This project also helped me to become more used to arc blocks, and to better use fill blocks. Below are pictures of my code and the end result.
The following pictures of code are all of the background codes.
This is the code for the petals on the flowers.The top of this picture is cut off, it just includes some set x and y blocks.This is the end result.
For my name artwork, I decided to make it a bit more abstract. I made every other letter upside down. I got the idea accidentally, as when I was trying to figure out how to make the i, it was upside down, so I chose to go with that. I also wanted a bit more color, so in the end, I decided to change the colors so they would be a “happy” four-color rainbow. One of the hardest things for me was trying to figure out how to use the arc block in order to get the s because I had never had any experience with it before. Another thing that I struggled with is trying to get the curve with the h, but I actually liked it with the right angle as I felt that it made it more abstract. The set x and y block really helped me with this project as it helped me a lot for placing my letters. I also used action blocks for each letter which made the start code a lot shorter. I didn’t really want to do too much to the background as I think that might have pulled attention away from the “abstractness” of the letters.
For my turtle art project, I did a house. The code below describes how I made the turtle make the house. This was my first time using action blocks, and it made it much easier to not have one long piece of code that would be really long. It was hard to figure out the sizing for the door and the windows. It took me a long time to figure out what exactly the sizing would be for it to look right because it mostly just guess and check. The house is not exactly right, but the main parts of the house are correct.
Hi, my name is Aish Eathara and this is my blog. One of my favorite things to do is to play tennis. I play tennis as a sport and like playing it, as well as sketching bad drawings, and taking bad close-up pictures of flowers. I also paint, though none of the paintings are actually good, so, like all other things art, I’m bad at it, but still do it anyway. I love reading books, and one of my favorite books isAru Shah and the End of Time all that follow in the series. I also like to decorate the most random things and look at stationery as I have gotten into bullet journaling. I love listening to music or podcasts while I do my homework, and I also like writing stories though I never get around to finishing them.
