This week's processing homework was to create a piece that related to some story or commented on some aspect of storytelling. My initial goal was to create a growing tree where the mouse cursor would "infect" certain branches if the cursor was too close. Similar to the game Life, adjacent branches would influence eachother, causing some to grow or fall off. The result would be an abstract representation of struggle, life, and death, a common theme in virtually all stories.
However, the library I used (traer physics), has certain painful limitations that prevented me from effectively creating what I wanted. That said, the result was still fairly cool. The final piece is a constantly growing virus that can be killed using the mouse cursor. The goal is to kill them all! (but they grow crazy fast).
Enjoy!