For this sketch, I wanted to have the stars have slightly different colors, to emulate how actual stars are not just pure white light. I tried a few different methods of doing this without any success. How would you accomplish this?
Looking to modify the first fill(255) to draw each star in a distinct color from a set. I tried using an array of around 4 colors and accessing the indexes. I tried using random() to choose rgb values a few numbers away from 255. I'm fairly new at this, so forgive my lack of proper terminology. I think I likely just didn't put my loop through the arrays in the correct spot.
Full code is here. Thanks in advance!
function starsMoon() { //create star cluster and moon
randomSeed(300);
translate(-width * 2, -height * 2);
noStroke();
fill(255);
for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) { // stars
// this is where I initially put the fill(colorSet[i])
ellipse(random(0,width * 4) + i, random(0,height * 4) + i, 2, 2);
}
fill(255);
ellipse(width * 1.25, height * 2, 100, 100); // moon
}Yeah either of those would work!
Random offset:
function starsMoon() { //create star cluster and moon
randomSeed(300);
translate(-width * 2, -height * 2);
noStroke();
for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) { // stars
fill(250 + ((random() - 0.5) * 2 * 5)) // random fill between 245 - 255
ellipse(random(0,width * 4) + i, random(0,height * 4) + i, 2, 2);
}
fill(255);
ellipse(width * 1.25, height * 2, 100, 100); // moon
}To rotate through colors from a list you just need take the index mod the number of colors:
function starsMoon() { //create star cluster and moon
randomSeed(300);
translate(-width * 2, -height * 2);
noStroke();
let colors = [
color(210, 180, 170),
color(40, 100, 29),
color(100, 100, 110),
color(102, 210, 12)
]
for (let i = 0; i < 300; i++) { // stars
fill(colors[i % colors.length]) // loop through colors
ellipse(random(0,width * 4) + i, random(0,height * 4) + i, 2, 2);
}
fill(255);
ellipse(width * 1.25, height * 2, 100, 100); // moon
}Cool project btw!