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Something Working

My mouse toy aims to enable the user to create an experience that is interactive but also which the user has some control over. The control comes from the placement of eyeballs onto a canvas, the interaction comes from the reaction of the eyeballs as a result of the movement of the mouse.
Mouse movement will relate to where the eyeballs are looking. Frantic movement will irritate the eyeballs causing them to change colour into a deep red.

Eyeballs are creepy. There is something pleasantly unpleasant about them. Eyeballs have many symbolic meanings, from sight, to clairvoyant visions of the past and future. In Egyptian myth the eye was not the passive organ of sight but more an agent of action, protection or wrath.

Currently I am also studying film at the Kelburn Campus and we have recently covered horror movies, In horror films the eyeball is used in many ways, as an indication of terror and pain in victim characters, and of control by the main antagonist. The eyeball is also a vulnerable part of the body and is easily irritated and/or pained. The sight of a hurt eyeball can cause us to experience imagined pain in our own eyes.

The point of all this is that hopefully my final mouse toy will be a little bit disgusting but will also keep someone entertained for a while.




////////Here is the working code I have so far.

void setup() {
  size(500, 500);

}

void draw() { }

void mousePressed() {

if (mousePressed == true){
//Eyeball gets bigger/values for eyeball size increases/value for eyeball
//size copies the value for the timer which is increasing
} else {
 //eyeball stops growing/
}
 
int X=mouseX;
int Y=mouseY;
int s=20;
float r=random(1);

//scale();                      //some sort of differing number
  fill(203,169,159);
  ellipse(X,Y,8*s*r,5.5*s*r);
  fill(190,164,103);
  ellipse(X,Y,7*s*r,5.4*s*r);
  fill(42,14,10);
  ellipse(X,Y,5*s*r,5*s*r);
  fill(0);
  ellipse(X,Y,s*r,s*r);
 
 }

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