Alright, let’s talk about this ‘world of dots’ thing I’ve been fiddling with. It started pretty simply, really. I was just messing around, you know, trying to see if I could make a bunch of tiny things appear on the screen.
Getting Started
So, first thing, I opened up my usual coding playground. Didn’t have a grand plan, just thought, “Okay, dots. How do I make one dot?” I figured out the basic command to draw a small circle. Easy enough. Got one dot showing up. Felt like a tiny victory, honestly.
Then I thought, “One dot is lonely.” So, I put that drawing command inside a loop. Just a simple loop, told it to run, say, 100 times. Boom! A hundred dots. But they were all piled up in the same spot. Looked like one slightly fatter dot. Not quite a ‘world’.
Spreading Them Out
Okay, next problem: getting them to spread out. I needed to give each dot its own place. Inside the loop, I started playing with random numbers. For each dot, I generated a random horizontal position (x) and a random vertical position (y). That did the trick! Suddenly, I had dots scattered all over the place. It was starting to look a bit more interesting.
This was the fun part. I tweaked the randomness.
- Made the dots different sizes, just slightly.
- Gave them slightly different shades of color, nothing too wild, just subtle variations.
It really started to feel less uniform, more organic, kinda like… well, a world of dots.
Adding Some Life
Static dots are fine, but I wanted a bit more. Movement! This part got a bit trickier. I had to keep track of each dot’s position and give each one a tiny nudge in a random direction every frame. This took some trial and error. At first, they zipped around way too fast, looked like angry bees. I had to slow them way, way down.
I also added a simple rule: if a dot went off the edge of the screen, it would just wrap around to the other side. Like in old video games. This kept the screen full and made it feel like a continuous space.
The Result (So Far)
So now, I’ve got this screen filled with hundreds of little dots, drifting around slowly, changing colors subtly. It’s kinda mesmerizing to watch. It’s not super complex, didn’t use any fancy libraries or anything, just built it up step by step. Started with one dot, ended up with this little flowing universe. Pretty cool what you can make just by putting one simple idea after another.
It’s still just a basic thing, but it was a satisfying process, going from nothing to this ‘world’. Just wanted to share how I got there.
