processing: Visualize 3 areas

[gorela]

The 3 major areas on the screen are:

• the inner circle
  • shows the network topology
  • static image first
• the area below the rails
  • shows which parts of the track the train paid for in green and red
  • define smallest segments and be able to change color on all of them individually
• the outer circle
  • shows different landscapes according to who was paid
  • show 3 different images

The 3 areas should be aligned with the rails and the circles may as well be racetracks.

[ezdac]

@gorela What kind of landscape did you imagine? We have 20bytes of information (from the Receivers hex-address) available to generate a unique representation. We should divide the resulting 20byte bitarray in slices, so that each slice represents a parameter of the landscape. The slices can get hashed, if the parameter requires less information than the size of the slice. (E.g. a color in processing can be a 32 bit integer maximum)

[ezdac]

What do you think about this: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/524376

I really like this visually - it's dynamic, and it looks like a topology. We could check if we can use this (legal perspective). We would have to modify it, so that it is totally deterministic based on a seed (the receivers address) and that the visual difference between different addresses is stronger.

For the deterministic behaviour, it doesn't seem sufficient to fix the seed for the perlin-noise (noiseSeed()) and the RNG (randomSeed()). The particles should have deterministic spawning positions.

We could also work with more colors (deterministic from address), and let the particles be pseudo-random.

[eorituz]

@gorela Since I saw the video I assume this issue can be closed, can't it?