{"id":1162,"date":"2014-12-03T09:09:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:42:54","slug":"ex-4-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Games from Nothing: Black &#038; White Exercise #4 \u2014 Particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Exercise 4, I found myself experiencing quite a bit of writer&#8217;s block &#8212; or designing\/programming block, in this case. So I kept things really simple, and decided to see what happened if I smashed two of our labs together. This was the result:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1163\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-03-at-4.04.44-AM-300x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-03 at 4.04.44 AM\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-03-at-4.04.44-AM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-03-at-4.04.44-AM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;game&#8217; opens with a shower of little circles, followed by a fountain of circles that follow your mouse around the screen. The larger ripples appear with each down-click. Simple, but certainly interesting to look at, especially once you get going and fill up the entire screen (and possibly crash your computer: this code gets quite laggy after a bit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Exercise 4, I found myself experiencing quite a bit of writer&#8217;s block &#8212; or designing\/programming block, in this case. So I kept things really simple, and decided to see what happened if I smashed two of our labs together&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,90],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-from-nothing","tag-black-white-exercises","tag-particle-systems","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13965,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/13965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}