New Direction

After I got feedback on how my project was doing I decided that the final idea would not be interactive enough. This presented a problem as I had no idea as to how to fix this. I decided that I needed to come up with a new concept which had code which was not outside my skill level but looked very pleasing and would require problem solving. I found this website after more research and I liked the simplicity of the idea as it looks very nice and is entertaining also.

http://www.betaruce.com/java/life/applet/

It uses the idea that the 'bugs' follow the food. The food is where the mouse last clicked and the 'bugs' look like they flash as they go. Earlier in the project I coded a series of dots that follow the mouse around. I went back to this code and decided to build upon it.

My new idea is to create balls which follow mouse and after a random amount of time would change colour. Random amounts of time also make the balls grow but when the mouse is pressed the balls shrink back to normal.