My project in Creative Coding: Making Visuals with JavaScript course
by Mike Peiman @mikepeiman
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The first exercise was fun, and I explored some variations, but I definitely put the least creative effort into this one, and only want to share one image from it. I may revisit in future.

I don't know what to call these, but I've saved hundreds of them, and generated thousands. These are a few of my favorite. I'll be honest, I think they're beautiful and mesmerizing. "Galaxy Eyes", perhaps. I think I'll get a few printed.



The classic particles-and-lines animation, with a bit of refinement using opacity fades and nice colors. I'm glad to learn how this is done; and there much more to explore here.
The only video I'm sharing from "sketch 04", I did experiment a lot here and saved several videos; but many crashes as it overtaxed my CPU/RAM and had numerous ffmpeg glitches. Finally, I broke my ffmpeg installation: after installing Rust and CMake for several other related packages it became unusable. I'll have to do some package cleanup.
Going back to "sketch 02", adding a Tweakpane control panel, and exploring animation.
This video shows a few variations in realtime as I play with Tweakpane control panel variables.
I put about twenty images in a folder and explored many, many variations on this theme. These are a few of the more interesting and beautiful ones. There is so much more room to play with this - although, I've found the limits of my laptop's computing power, for sure. Many Chrome crashes.



If anyone is interested in the code, I've created a separate github repository for it just to share - it is cloned and cleaned up from a branch of a SvelteKit project which I used throughout the course as a convenient place to work on this.
https://github.com/mikepeiman/creative-coding-domestika.git
6 comments
cama600
fantastic work!
filipa_silva05
Your work is fantastic and very artistic!
I check your github too.
Congratulations!
noskillzdad
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
stapapas
Exquisite! Thanks!
saameebearr
Hello there, these are amazing works! I was wondering how do you create the "galaxy eyes" - if you can share the codes? I was looking at the link to github, i guess i am pretty much forgotten how to look for the correct code, i don't see one label for "galaxy eyes". It would be really appreciated if you can share how to make those colors, and the movements seem very seamless as well
mikepeiman
@saameebearr Hi, so sorry for long delay! I would like to reorganize the code neatly and make a presentation site too, but I've got too many projects on my plate at the moment.
The code for that generator *is* in the repo - it was for that exercise in the course (#3 maybe?) NOT labeled "galaxy eyes". I just used that term to describe it in the final project presentation.
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