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8 years ago Thanks for submitting these. Looking great! In the interest of time I've gone ahead and commented a few things in your source code. Please make sure you go through my Thimble remixes to see the changes/fixes and apply them to your sketches.
Sketch 1: remixed: https://thimbleprojects.org/kevinsiwoff/63921/ I corrected a few noticeable errors with comments inline. The real issue had to do with your image access when displaying each particle. There's a lot of complex object oriented code going on here, so kudos to you for taking something like this on!
Sketch 2: remixed: https://thimbleprojects.org/kevinsiwoff/63913/ You can get rid of the blurry text problem by rendering your text as a DOM element. Here's how you'd do that. Also, and this goes for anyone using images, please make sure your backgrounds extend to the full width and height of the page. It'll look much better in the final book output!
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Sketch 1 - If I were The Big Bang Theory:
Thimble: https://thimbleprojects.org/cm3884/63731
The theme of my three sketches are outer space. If I were a galaxy, a snapshot of space as we know it, and if I were the big bang theory. This first sketch illustrates the big bang theory in an interactive way. If I were a big bang, I would continue and never stop generating new life, energy and matter.
This sketch keeps freezing in Thimble after a few seconds. I inspected it and I think that it's throwing an error regarding my index file and drawing images to the canvas? So I shrank all of my images and saved them as jpegs instead of gifs. I tested one out and it solved the problem, but then uploaded 3 more and it's freezing again. The sketch works totally fine in my p5 editor. Is there something I should be doing? Thanks for any feedback!
Sketch 2 - If I were a Galaxy
Thimble: https://thimbleprojects.org/cm3884/63747
We exist in the milk way galaxy, but there are millions (billions?) more out there. We aren't even sure how they form. This sketch illustrates how galaxies form, the generation and death of stars, and just how massive and active space can be.
For my next iteration of this project I want to figure out if I can get the galaxies to move or rotate. I experimented with creating a galaxy class that draws itself, so that this can happen, but I'm not there yet!