Genuary!

Spend a month making one beautiful thing per day, given a bunch of prompts. A month late, but as they say, ’the second best time is now'.

Let’s do it!

1) Perfect loop / Infinite loop / endless GIFs

For this one, really anything that uses trig functions of the frame count will work. Trig functions are great at cycling. 😄

Ergo:

function frame_cycle(C) {
  return cos(map(frameCount % C, 0, C, -1.0, 1.0));
}

Let’s use that to cycle through colors, rotations, and translations:

function frame_cycle(C) {
  return cos(map(frameCount % C, 0, C, -1.0, 1.0));
}

function setup() {
  createCanvas(400, 400);
  colorMode(HSL);
}

function draw() {
  fill(360 * frame_cycle(90), 100, 50, 1);

  push();
  translate(width / 2, height / 2);
  rotate(360 * frame_cycle(180));
  scale(frame_cycle(15));

  rect(0, 0, width / 4, height / 4);
  pop();
}

And away we go. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Is it generated and fun to watch? Absolute!