Essentially I would like for all these disparate lines to be connected in one single path. I am using vector.add() because I would like a cumulative result. Maybe that's the issue? Or perhaps it's how I'm accessing the previous element of the array?
Please take a look at this snippet:
let lifespan = 200;
let genes = [];
let previous;
let prevpos;
function setup(){
createCanvas(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
background(255);
genes[0] = createVector(50,50);
stroke(0);
strokeWeight(1);
beginShape(LINES)
vertex(genes[0].x, genes[0].y);
for (let i = 1; i < lifespan; i++) {
previous = genes[i-1];
genes[i] = previous.add(createVector(random(-10,10),random(-10,10)));
// vertex(previous.x, previous.y);
vertex(genes[i].x, genes[i].y);
}
endShape()
}
function draw(){
}<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id='sketch'> </div>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/p5@1.4.0/lib/p5.min.js"></script>
<script src="sketch.js"></script>
<script>
</script>
</body>
</html>I thought I had tried this already but I just needed to uncomment a line.
beginShape(LINES)
vertex(genes[0].x, genes[0].y);
for (let i = 1; i < lifespan; i++) {
previous = genes[i-1];
genes[i] = previous.add(createVector(random(-10,10),random(-10,10)));
vertex(previous.x, previous.y); //<-- uncomment this
vertex(genes[i].x, genes[i].y);
}
endShape()