To recap, here’s a picture of an inspiration of what I wanted do for my midterm.
This is the mighty Sun. It’s a star in our solar system that is about 4.5 billion years of age. It’s mostly made up of Hydrogen (H), and Helium (He).
What we see on this picture is the surface of the star, up to the Photosphere. The two gases are interacting with each other and generating energy that sometimes, due to Sun’s strange magnetic fields, creates gaseous eruptions called the Solar Prominence.
I am using these concepts on my generative art revolving around the movements of gases, and creating eruptions. At first I was planning on using shaders, but then after a couple of articles and videos, I realized that it would take some time and expertise to learn GLSL. Therefore, I decided on using Perlin Noise along with Flow Fields, explained on a video by Daniel Shiffman.
I have utilized concepts learned in class such as Vectors, Forces, Oscillation, Sine Waves, and so on. This is how the sketch looks at the moment.
TODOs:
- Create the ring-shaped gaseous eruptions. (I’m very close)
- Clip the art onto a circle, to make it appear like a star.
- Add distant stars in the background. A for loop with vertices will do the trick.