"passive art" mode?

[iangilman]

Beautiful work!

I'm building a website for collecting and enjoying passive art made with code:

http://www.artywidget.com/

… and I'd love to add Field Play as one of the artworks, but it would need a passive mode, with no UI, where it periodically shuffles its own settings. Would you be up for that? I can help with the implementation if you want, but I wanted to check in with you on the possibility first.

Here's a little more about what I mean by "passive art":

https://github.com/pixfabrik/artywidget/wiki/Artwork-Guidelines

Thank you for your consideration!

[anvaka]

Thank you!

I like your website. I think we could add a special query string argument which would serve as a flag to hide all UI elements from the field play.

As for progressively randomizing - need to think more about it. Technically you could just have a list of nice looking vector fields and loop over it.

The equation randomizer in this repository is very naive and becomes repetitive after a while.

[iangilman]

Awesome... Glad you like the idea!

I've been suggesting ui=0 as the UI-hiding query string param. I think it's reasonable that the randomizing could be triggered by the same param, since it's sort of a logical extension of not having UI.

I like the idea of doing the "randomization" for the passive mode with a list of nice looking settings (which could of course be shuffled). I imagine you've already collected a good number of them.

Do you want me to take a wack at getting this rolling, or is it something you want to do?

[anvaka]

Please, feel free to try it. I'd still keep ui=0 separate from the code generation, to conform to single responsibility principle.

I was thinking about adding scripted support of field manipulation, where a single JSON file could define timeline of a field evolution. E.g.

evolution: [{
  time: timeOffsetInMilliseconds,
  state: object that defines application state (field, code settings, etc.)
}, {
  time: ...
  state: ...
}, {
  ...
}]

Maybe some elements of this timeline could trigger random function generation, and some elements would allow to route control to a given element (allowing loops). This is a long term feature, which would allow artists to script their fields.

[iangilman]

Great! I've made a PR for ui=0. I'll make a second one for the "progressive" mode; any thoughts on what that url param should be called? Progressive? Random? Shuffle? Changing? :)

Also, the param could be a number of seconds rather than just a flag, so you can control how often it changes. changetime=60 for instance.

The scripting feature sounds cool! I guess this can be a first step towards that.

[iangilman]

I guess this is well under way, so we can close this issue.

[iangilman]

… And added!

http://www.artywidget.com/artwork/5a7f76ffcba62e0029f53498/

Thank you for working with me on this :-)