Contents:

• Collaboration Policy
• Overview
• Technical Requirements
• Grading Standards
• Submitting Your Assignment

Collaboration Policy

For each assignment in the course, we will explicitly state the collaboration policy as it applies to that assignment. For this assignment, you must work individually in regard to the design and implementation of your project. In all cases, ensure that you adhere to the policies on academic integrity.

Overview

For this first project, you are to sketch a static image of something interesting using Processing. Think of yourself as a creative designer when choosing the topic of your design. To give you some ideas, you might consider:

• A self-portrait
• A cartoon character or avatar of someone
• A city scape
• A landscape
• An animal or other such creature
• A design for fabric, costume, or T-shirt
• A poster, a logo, or other such graphic design artifact
• Imitation of existing design or art styles

There are no specific constraints on your artistic vision, but a really "abstract" sketch, such a simple circle in the center of the screen will not suffice (as asthetic as it may seem). In terms of technical constraints, we wish for you to demonstrate non-trivial use for a variety of features of Processing. We give an explicit list of minimum technical requirements below. However, we hope that you will enjoy the project and will feel free to go beyond the minimum requirements.

We will create a class portfolio of all of the submissions for others to admire. If you would like some inspiration, visit last year's portfolio for this assignment

Technical Requirements

You must make non-trivial use of at least one of each of the following shapes:

• point
• line
• rect
• triangle
• ellipse
• arc (both filled and unfilled)

Your sketch must include a collection of shapes that demonstrate some variance for each of the following attributes:

• varying stroke weights
• varying stroke colors, for both lines and borders
• varying fill colors, including at least one object with no fill (and something visible behind its interior)

Submitting Your Assignment

Please see details regarding the submission process from the general programming web page, as well as a discussion of the late policy.

For this project, we ask that you submit the following three files:

• The .pde file that contains the actual Processing source code you've written
• A separate 'readme' text file, as outlined in the general webpage on programming projects.
• A .jpg image of your final sketch. You may create this from within Processing by using the command

        save("myProject.jpg");   // or any other such filename of your choice
        

  at the very end of your sketch.

Grading Standards

The assignment is worth 70 points, which will be assessed as follows:

• (14 points) Demonstrated use of all required shape primitives
• (10 points) Demonstrated variance of shape attributes
• (14 points) Good program design (e.g., organization, use of variables)
• (12 points) Comments, Naming Conventions, and adherence to submission procedures
• (10 points) Artistic merit
• (10 points) Degree of difficulty