I had a lot of fun with this assignment. I’m still super uncomfortable with actually creating my own code, but getting to play around with existing code was a blast. I tried out a few different things:
- Changed the text to be larger – then to be smaller.
- Changed the text positioning and size.
- Changed the shapes representing life expectancy from an ellipse to a rectangle.
- Changed the background color (color is still something I still really have trouble with for some reason).
- I got really into adding all kinds of emojis to the page. It felt like my upper limit for personalizing this code, so I really went for it‼️
I started looking at all the cool things you could do through the p.js website and I really wish I knew enough to just drag and drop code in. I wanted to try the “snowflake” or “particle system” effect they featured.
I also tried to incorporate a background image, but also couldn’t quite make that happen. More specifically I wanted to use this photo of my Dad:
Overall, this was really fun. 😎
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