Shapevent

This is another sketch I did while developing my library for fast drawing. It is made up of 5,000 transparent squares.

It reminds me of a sand dollar:




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The transparent squares are placed in a circular formation using polar coordinates. The squares can be pushed/separated with the mouse.

Using copyPixels to draw is very fast. If your code is set up correctly you can draw thousands of small graphics to the screen - this would be impossible using sprites, shapes etc…

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting some of the sketches I created while developing a small library for handling this kind of drawing. This first one is a texture made up of 500 oscillating transparent circles that are attracted to the mouse…




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