My final project will explore abstract patterns stereoscopically. I visited this gallery in Chelsea, and found an ernormous drawing that had hundreds of connecting triangular nodes. While this pattern was aesthetically appealing, I felt it lacked interactivity. I wanted to touch it.

I would like to simulate skin. I started to think what would happen visually if I had several vertexes connecting randomly.

I would like to make a layer of this pattern in red and also one in blue, so that it would merge to give it some depth. If the user wore a pair of stereoscopic glasses, what would happen if the red pattern was fed into the right eye and the blue pattern was fed into the left eye.

Randomly knocked out nodes to emphasize depth:

The result is this:

Code:

void setup(){
size(800,600);
background(255);
stroke(255,0,0,100);
//noFill();
beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP);

int lastX = 400;
int lastY = 300;

for(int i = 0; i < 10000;i++) {
vertex(lastX, lastY);
lastX += random(-55,55);
lastY += random(-55,55);

if (lastX < 0){
lastX =(int) random(400,800);
}

if (lastX > 800){
lastX = (int)random(400,800);
}
if (lastY < 0){
lastY = (int)random(300,600);
}

if (lastY > 600){
lastY = (int)random(300,600);
}
}
endShape();

stroke(60,220,249,100);
noFill();
beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP);

lastX = 400;
lastY = 300;

for(int i = 0; i < 1000;i++) {
vertex(lastX, lastY);
lastX += random(-55,55);
lastY += random(-55,55);

if (lastX < 0){
lastX =(int) random(mouseX,800);
}

if (lastX > 800){
lastX = (int)random(400,800);
}
if (lastY < 0){
lastY = (int)random(300,600);
}

if (lastY > 600){
lastY = (int)random(300,600);
}
}

endShape();

}

void draw(){

}