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Pixel Lake

Check out my first foray into Processing: a 2.5D mosaic experiment.
Waaay faster as a standalone application (or run from within Processing).

PixelLake screenshot

One thing that I really like is the way you can see the waves reflecting off the walls. Sure, this isn’t exactly the most spectacular example of emergent behaviour, but it’s certainly not explicitly coded in. I think that’s pretty neat.

Don’t forget to play with keys 1,2,3,4,5, and all the other keys listed in the red help text. One unlisted function is that holding the shift key allows you to press, rather than lift the pixels.

For you nerds, yes, it’s a 2d array of elements connected to their neighbours by “springs”. Short story: each pixel accelerates toward the average of its neighbours.

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8 Responses to “Pixel Lake”

  1. Bill Connelly says:
    May 18, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    load: class PixelLake.class not found.
    java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: PixelLake.class
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed:http://aidan.rfm.co.nz/blog/2010/05/pixel-lake/PixelLake/class.class
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    … 7 more
    Exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: PixelLake.class

  2. aidan says:
    May 18, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Hmm – thanks for the report Bill. Anyone else getting that error?

  3. yelelebrother says:
    May 19, 2010 at 10:22 am

    Paramètre CODE manquant dans une étiquette APPLET.

  4. yelelebrother says:
    May 19, 2010 at 10:23 am

    (Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20)

  5. Gian Carlo Mingati says:
    May 21, 2010 at 12:43 am

    I like it!!

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    May 21, 2010 at 3:10 pm

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  7. Guy says:
    April 6, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    Very cool. I modified the source code a little to make it react to sound. You can check it out here – http://guyyitzhaki.com/code/PixelLakeReactive/

  8. aidan says:
    August 1, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    Sweet as!

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