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Create p5 sketches for figures I.2, I.3, I.5, I.6
@zee-em do you think it makes sense to draw these or should I just regenerate them with p5?
Is there a reason they were generated as sketches, like would people be creating that output themselves to test in p5, and this is an example of what to expect?
If not, I would say let's do them as illustrations for consistency's sake.
BTW it seems like there's an opportunity to add a fun monkey illustration in this section, with tall and short monkeys... Maybe a New York City street scene made up of monkeys of varying heights... just a thought...
It's nice to have the accompanying code as an extra resource for these illustrations (and that's probably why I did them this way in the first place) but there's really no reason to have them be screenshots since they are static diagrams. (In a future iteration of the book I could imagine an interactive diagram where you get to play around with sliders.) I think I would opt for drawn (and I love the idea of monkeys! Or cats! Or chickens! 😂)
There's another similar spot later in the intro that looks like this:
I do mention the accompanying code, but these could be drawn as well? Maybe you would even want to trace them? Or is that silly?
@jasongao97 do we have a way of embedding a p5 sketch with link to the web editor if it's not an example? B/c that's another option that would be a reason to have them be p5 canvases rather than illustrations?
Sure! Here is one already. (2D Perlin noise) Embedded sketches are now represented just by a bookmark in notion so they can be anywhere.
Ah, thanks @jasongao97! @zee-em let's hold off on illustrating these and I'll first try embedding them as p5 sketches. But I do like the idea of the monkey illustration to help explain so feel free to try out ideas there!
@jasongao97 I'm loathe to add features which in turn add complexity but it does occur to me that in the reset pause bar we could consider a mechanism for adding a slider that controls a variable from the sketch? Maybe file this as an idea for later?
Let's leave this open and I'll re-title to indicate that i need to add the p5 sketches as bookmarks.
As @jasongao97 and I just discussed in our meeting, the only additional feature we need is adding the support for a caption #165. I'm working on these today, @zee-em I combined I.2 and I.3 into one so I ended up renumbering the illustrations in this chapter in case that affects your file management. The new numbers are updated in Notion.
These are all now p5 sketches in the Introduction. I also replaced a screenshot for Exercise I.10 with a p5 sketch. The only thing that is a little too bad about this approach is I can't see the sketch itself in notion, but this is a tiny thing as I always click on it and run the sketch.
For each of these I've uploaded screenshot.png to the p5 sketch for the print version.
@jasongao97 I'm re-assigning this issue to you. Once #165 is resolved and the intro chapter builds correctly, it can be closed.