WOGL Creation

Assigned:
Wed, Sep 16
Due:
Wed, Sep 23

Your job in this assignment:

  1. Create something awesome with WOGL.
  2. Explain a little bit of how your creation works.

There are several different possible starting points for your creation:

  • You may start with one of the examples I provided, and modify it until it feels like it’s your own.
  • You may start with random experiments, find one that looks cool, then play with it and refine it.
  • You may start with a specific plan and build something up from basic building blocks using everything you’ve figured out about WOGL so far.

Any and all of these approaches are wonderful! You have similar latitude in what the end result looks like:

  • Your creation might have very long and complicated code, or it might be just a tiny bit of code.
  • Your creation might look complex, or it might be elegantly simple.
  • Your creation might or might not be colorful.
  • Your creation might or might not use animation.

The only two things that are essential are that you can point to your creation and honestly say:

  • “That’s really cool!” and
  • “That’s my own creation!”

Whatever you do, spend some time playing and refining to make it really awesome. As you work, I strongly recommend using the snapshot feature (camera in the lower left) to back up your work as you go: regularly copy and paste snapshots into a document somewhere, early and often, so that you don’t accidentally lose your creation by (for example) closing a browser tab!

Write a clear and concise explanation of one key piece of how the WOGL code for your creation works. You do not need to explain every detail! Instead, focus on one aspect that is important and/or interesting, and write an explanation of just that one aspect.

“Clear” means that another student should be able to read what you wrote, think about it, and understand it.

“Concise” means that you should strive to make your explanation 1000 characters or less. This may be quite difficult! That challenge is the point: you are trying to say something compelling without wasting words.

Follow the submission instructions on Moodle.

You will share your creation with the whole class on the projector on Fri, Sep 25.

We might also use your creation in our end-of-semester public event.