Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/550 prgm

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Problem Statement

We will consider the software 'Processing' as a platform to optimize automated solution of the game Poppit.

Team Members

OJ

BobFK

Summary

As a construct of Java, Processing is not only capable but suited for construction of a Poppit simulation.

Poster

Screenshot of single player Pong being played.

Another screenshot of single player Pong being played.

Story

We identified Processing's basic similarities with Java. From a few examples we learned about Processing's graphic output structure. Specifically, the 'Noise' examples displayed pseudo-random motion through several graphical interpretations. We also discussed strategies to Chunk Poppit and briefly troubleshoot Poppit's on-campus incompatibility with Firefox.

Material List

Internet capable Computers (for software)
Engineering Notebooks (documentation)

Software List

'Processing' by Ben Fry and Casey Reas

Google Chrome

Time

An estimated 3-5 hours was done by each team member. The majority of the time spent by the team was on playing around with different Processing examples, learning to use wikiversity, recording observations in notebooks, and developing a simple game using Processing language.

Tutorials

Processing source code for the game of Pong: sourcePong.txt

Next Steps

Write a Poppit interface in Processing and begin chunking.