Forces - Week 3

For this week's force assignment I was inspired by one of the most serious ecological disasters that happened in my country this week.

A tremendous amount of tar has washed up on much of Israel's Mediterranean coastline, one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

I volunteered to help clear the pollutant from the beaches so the inspiration for this week was a very hands-on one. I started by uploading an image of the beach and apply the force on top of it:

But I wasn’t too happy with how it turned out so then I decided to try and create the ocean myself. I used noise() for the movement of the waves.

let noiseZ = frameCount * 0.01;
let noiseY = 0;
let noiseX = 0;

let n = noise(noiseX, noiseY, noiseZ);
noiseX += dx;
noiseY += dy;

I define the edges but not to the height, to make it look like it continues with the movement of the waves in the ocean.

this.checkEdges = function() {
if (this.pos.x < 0) {
this.pos.x = 0;
this.vel.x *= -1;
}
if (this.pos.x > width) {
this.pos.x = width;
 this.vel.x *= -1;
 }
 if (this.pos.y < 0) {
 this.pos.y = 0;
this.vel.y *= -1;
this.vel.y *= -1;
}

https://editor.p5js.org/Llio2493/sketches/LqbFNaiVv

There is still a scope of improvement and I’ll keep working on it.