shapes not images

With my initial brainstorm i found that i was focusing most of my thoughts on interations with an image. I was imagining images and objects that would move, bounce, float, or react with each other. I wanted to personify an object through code. I began to realise through further brainstorming and development of ideas, that i needed to focus more on shapes, which i personally would be able to create using code. Shapes can be just as exciting, and just as interactively interesting as an image.

So i then came up with three simple shape concepts - pond ripples, heart beat monitor, and an egg timer shape.

• A pond ripple would be activated every mouse click, and gradually expand to become bigger and bigger ellipses. I intended the colours to also grow more transparent as they expanded, and when two ripples collide a noise would be created.
• For the heart-beat code, a line would form in the middle of the frame, which would react to the movement of the mouse, and create a series of spikes.
• Right mouse click would initiate a egg timer on the page which would follow the mouse around the screen. It would twist and turn up-side down, and grains of sand would fall when the direction changed. Sound would be heard when sand touched an edge of the timer.

My favourite idea was the zig-zag effect of the heart monitor. Straight lines, when used in an effective way, can become powerful and suprizing. I wanted to create this aspect of suprize in my code.

So i expanded the idea of the heart-beat.