I’m teaching Processing to art students at UCSD and the course’s professor has basically asked them to create visual rhythm. I made a few sketches to show a simple way in which this might be accomplished.
#1 shape_function.pde
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This sketch creates repetitive shapes using a for-loop in a user-defined function.
#2 rhythm2.pde
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A simple sketch to illustrate how things can appear to move with independent rhythms.
#3 rhythm.pde
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A slightly more involved sketch that combines the two above.