My series of sketches for the Nature vs Machine project is called “Night & Light” as each sketch plays with the idea of nature and light at night. This first sketch is “Fireflies” in which I aimed to recreated the beautiful light trails left by fireflies at night.
This sketch is both animated and interactive; click the mouse to add more fireflies to the jar, and use the S key to save the frame!
As I stated in class this is a very impressive piece. I notice that it does not work as well on the website as it did in class. Do you know why this is? I was really impressed at the way that you produce the trails. Being a programmer I would have gone to a much more complex solution but as Einstein says: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.