AME Homwork Week 7

Curves

Using color in processing than finger painting. Colors cant simply be "more blue" or "more red". In processing, as in many programs, each and every color has a specific code. What may appear as inconvenient as first will eventually, with practice, become as intuitive as finger painting. New user will find the color palette tool very useful, since it can show the resulting color and can be easier than punching in random numbers looking for the right color. Gray scale is controlled with numbers between 0 and 250 but color scale is using all RGB colors, each ranging up to 250. A fourth number controls opacity. In addition to colors, the outlines can also be controlled or there can simply be no color at all by choosing to use nofill().

Curves

When it comes to bending lines there are simple curves which is the most basic form of a curve. It is a single bend that can be very difficult to use in large quantities. When wanting to make a series of curves, spline curves are more effective because they are easier to put into a series, forming a continuous bend. This can be useful when one wants to create more than one arc. Then one disadvantage to spline curves, however, is that they are not as swooping or fluid looking as arcs. For this, bezier curves are the more appropriate choice, since they can be put into a series but still retain their smoothness.