Developement.

This is my first few attempts at getting the lightbeam effect that I want. some of them look like something i could potentially expand on for my finals and some of them are not.

Research.

 

These are just a few images I am looking like for insperation on sunlight beams and researhing how they form. I want to try get something that is similar to the bottom image.

MY IDEA.

For my idea on structure I am going to be looking at the structure of the sun and the sunlight beams. I have not decided yet if i want to make a direct replication of the structure in the sun and the sunlight beams or if i want to do it in my own abstract way. once i do some research on differant sunlight beams I will begine experimenting with how I can do this with Processing.

First attmept at doing a pattern in processing.

first attempt at making a pattern in procesing. other experiments where done but since they were not static they were hard to show as one image. With this pattern I was looking at getting structure with all the differant sized ellipse's in a line and makking it very suttle.

Pattern final

Algorithm:

1. First get a six sided snowflake off the internet. Any will do. I got mine form the first picture that came up on Google images when searching snowflake brush.

2. Duplicate snowflake at each of the six end points.

3. Take this pattern you have now and minimize it too fill in major gaps in the pattern and to make it look more rounded. This is important for the next step.

4. Now draw a circle around the rounded snowflake pattern you have and make it a light blue or on Photoshop make it colour #7ecdff.

5.  Now minimize again and make the blue circle white and invert the snowflake from white to black. After this is done duplicate and match up one end of the minimized snowflake to the main big one. Do this all around so you should have 6 mini snowflake patterns around the big one.

7. In a straight line connect all of the edges of the small snowflakes patterns together to make a hexagon and make this the same colour as the first circle you made.

8. Finally duplicate the pattern you have made so far and put two of the sides of the hexagon side by side 2mm apart.

9. repeat step 8 until your grid is filled up.