We have a project called “generative art”. Our goal is to make a program, and that program creates something totally random that works as a form of art. My idea was the following, and I wanted to base it around the subject ‘Gaming’. I want to start off drawing a line, let’s say it moves over the …

just an example that might help you wrap your head around what to do with the data once you have it in processing. [exampleOut] String fakeData; String chars; int charIndex; int x, y; int gridCellSize; int gridCellSizeHalf; int gridWidth; int gridHeight; void setup() { size(480, 480, P2D); fr…

Thank you. I will give it a go and see if i can get it to work

Okay so I have been giving your code a look and been trying a few things here and there, but I cannot seem to figure out the next step on how to procceed (more due my lack of knowledge). I have been googling around a bit but still cannot really find the answer I am looking for. It seems that you w…

i just used the for loop to generate a random string of data instead of having to read a text file of keylogged data. basically you would replace that with something like keylogData = loadStrings("keylogData.txt")[0]; and “keylogData.txt” will be a file in your sketch folder with all the data you…

Thank you so much, that made it much more clear for me :smile:

One last question If I want to delete charIndex lnteger and the whole “charIndex = (charIndex + 1) % keylogData.length();” line. AKA, draw only once (from my understanding of your explanation). What kind of value would end up inbetween the brackets of switch()? So: Load text (keylogData) draw on…

just lose the charIndex and iterate over the entire string. void draw() { //background(200); int len = keylogData.length(); for(int i = 0; i < len; i++) { switch(keylogData.charAt(i)) { case 'w': //do that thing you do y = y - 1 < 0 ? gridHeight - 1 : y - 1; drawArrow(x * gridCel…

You are amazing. I feels pretty dumb that I could not figure it out myself what so ever I tried. thank you

all good. you’ll get there just keep plugging away at it.

I made sure to add the delay to my program (charIndex). I noticed when running it without it, the drawing would go extremly fast. It works perfectly like I wanted to. I cannot thank you enough

How to use characters (and assign tasks to these characters) from a .txt file in Processing

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kll February 24, 2019, 1:15am 14

https://processing.org/reference/StringList.html
https://processing.org/reference/StringList_hasValue_.html
it checks if a “record” with a specific content exists

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