Remarks: Processing Mazes
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The first Processing version of 10 PRINT was written to take advantage of the increased resolution of contemporary screens. It does this by making the thickness and ends of the lines into variables that can be changed while the program runs. The lines of the maze can range from 0.5 to 10 pixels wide and the lines can terminate with a rounded or square end. Like 10 PRINT, it maintains the grid of lines at 40 x 25 units, but unlike 10 PRINT it doesn't add each grid unit in sequence from left to right and top to bottom. In the new high-resolution version, the entire maze is refreshed in unison. Without thinking carefully about it, we used the default Processing colors to create white lines and a black background. In hindsight, this imbued the program with a distinct mood from the original lower-contrast blues of the C64. The result is shown in figures ?? to ??. | The first Processing version of 10 PRINT was written to take advantage of the increased resolution of contemporary screens. It does this by making the thickness and ends of the lines into variables that can be changed while the program runs. The lines of the maze can range from 0.5 to 10 pixels wide and the lines can terminate with a rounded or square end. Like 10 PRINT, it maintains the grid of lines at 40 x 25 units, but unlike 10 PRINT it doesn't add each grid unit in sequence from left to right and top to bottom. In the new high-resolution version, the entire maze is refreshed in unison. Without thinking carefully about it, we used the default Processing colors to create white lines and a black background. In hindsight, this imbued the program with a distinct mood from the original lower-contrast blues of the C64. The result is shown in figures ?? to ??. | ||
| − | While we were making these variations, we took the opportunity to make some additional quick changes to explore the visual aspects of the 10 PRINT maze. [MORE, about weighting the random values, using different symbols ] | + | While we were making these variations, we took the opportunity to make some additional quick changes to explore the visual aspects of the 10 PRINT maze. [MORE, about weighting the random values, using different symbols to show how it's based on the diagonals. ] |
| − | It's important to note that these changes could have been explored directly on the C64, but it was convenient to do to in Processing because Casey was writing this code and he was more fluent with that syntax than with BASIC. The 10 PRINT variations to explore weighting the random value to have a higher percentage of left-leaning lines is: | + | It's important to note that these changes could have been explored directly on the C64, but it was convenient to do to in Processing because Casey was writing this code and he was more fluent with that syntax than with BASIC. The 10 PRINT variations to explore weighting the random value to have a higher percentage of one diagonal lines is: |
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