my goal is to make an iceberg tracker. not a real iceberg don’t worry. I started with just making a random point generator and then Lee suggested we use Perlin Noise to move the point around the screen. with that I was able to make this. we then added a northward preference by giving the Y value a range of numbers with more negative than positive #‘s. that’s all I had time for in class. the next time I thought of this project was in a New Media club meeting, super fun to show it off as I was making it. Some of the students were also working in processing!

I was able to find this image of Antarctica and a free iceberg PNG and that made a world of a difference (or–just the lower part of the world.) my yearCounter()’s algorithm was a little off. it would count a day up with the month at the same time and time travel is not allowed… also days were longer than 31 (for this sketch each month is 31 days)

I then fixed the time travel and made the textbox more readable honestly that’s it. total of ~2 hours of work to make this prototype. as an added challenge I can make it have collision detection but I don’t feel like it. icebergs can and will go on land.watch out

WATCH OUT FOR THE LAND ICEBERG

here’s the p5 page