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!
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!
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!
Wikipedia: Persian carpet
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!
Wikipedia: Art Deco
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!
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!
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!
Wikipedia: Asemic writing
Use the same Wikipedia code as yesterday to get a random page, render each word as a line that meanders based on the letters of the word. Shiny. 😄
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!
META! LEARN EVERYTHING!
Fetch a random page from Wikipedia and scroll it by super quick, see how fast you can speed read it. And heck, you might just learn something. I know I did!
let url;
let titleToRender;
let wordsToRender;
let wordIndex;
let nextButton;
let wikiButton;
const CHAR_SIZE = 60;
function setup() {
createCanvas(400, 400);
frameRate(10);
nextButton = createButton("next");
nextButton.mousePressed(renderRandomPage);
wikiButton = createButton("open");
wikiButton.mousePressed(() => {
window.open(url, '_blank');
});
wordsToRender = [];
wordIndex = 0;
renderRandomPage();
}
function draw() {
if (wordIndex > wordsToRender.length) {
noLoop();
}
clear();
textSize(CHAR_SIZE);
for (let i = 0; i < height / CHAR_SIZE; i++) {
if (i == 3) {
fill("black");
} else {
fill("lightgray");
}
text(
wordsToRender[wordIndex + i],
10,
CHAR_SIZE * (i + 1)
);
}
stroke("black");
line(
width - 10,
10,
width - 10,
height - 10
);
circle(
width - 10,
1.0 * wordIndex / wordsToRender.length * (height - 20),
20
);
wordIndex++;
}
function renderRandomPage() {
wikiButton.attribute('disabled', '');
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/70225116
async function go() {
let title;
{
let json = await httpGet(`https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&generator=random&grnlimit=1&grnnamespace=0&prop=info&origin=*`, 'json');
let pages = json.query.pages;
let id = Object.keys(pages)[0];
title = pages[id].title;
url = `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${title}`;
}
let body;
{
let json = await httpGet(`https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=${title}&prop=extracts&explaintext&origin=*`, 'json');
let pages = json.query.pages;
let id = Object.keys(pages)[0];
body = pages[id].extract;
}
return [title, body];
}
background(255);
text("Loading...", 10, 20);
go().then(([title, body]) => {
titleToRender = title;
wordsToRender = body.trim().split(/\s+/);
wordIndex = 0;
wikiButton.removeAttribute('disabled');
loop();
});
}