Reflection.

Im happy with the outcome of the application that was made because in the end I did managed to get and illusion feel to it. However with more time and to develope this further I would of liked to make more of the ellipses and make them smaller and add in fireing the ball through all the ellipses and you have to find the real one that way. this would of been more interesting than just moving the mouse around.

Description.

 I based my interaction on illusions so you have to figure out how the application works first but it is not over complicated so anyone can do it. When you first see the application you see several ellipses moving around independently but when you go to move one of the ellipses you will find that only one of them actually interacts with the mouse and gets pushed by it. The one ellipse that can only interact with the mouse is like the “leader” because when u push the “leader” all the other ellipses follow. Kind of like worker bees following the queen bee. So the illusion is created by you thinking that you can move each ellipse when you cannot. With the visual aspects of the application two ellipse’s are on top of each other and flashing while at the same time changing their shape slightly every time it flashes. The idea behind it is that when you find the “real” ellipse and you can try meshing all the ellipses together which will make different shapes and images.

FINAL.

Its hard to see what my application is doing with just images but the circles are constantly changing which is making a flashing effect when moving and as you can see once you gett all the ellipses together they form countless amounts of other images.

Link to code on open processing:
http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=36351

Development 2.

For more interaction I have added more ellipses to the apllication and while coding I found that once adding more ellipses there was only the first ellipse that was interactiong with the mouse and that when that one was moved the rest moved. Another interesting thing I have found out is how when they come together they make differant shapes.

Development 1

here i experimented with changing the colour but it did not make it seem more interesting and the colours for it didnt look good at all.