http://rmx.cz/monsters/

Processing Monsters are result of my effort to learn Processing and encourage others to do so by showing the source code.
Also, at the end, my plan is to do a short music reactive video using these monsters.

There are no restrictions at all apart from these two: Monsters are strictly Black&White and mouse reactive. Everything else is up to you..

It doesn't need to be a masterpiece you spend two weeks on... Most of those that are now on the page, I created in a couple hours or so..

I will credit every contributor and provide link to their website.

Thanks ,]

im gonna make one too, that is a cool idea!!

I grabbed some code from an old project and cobbled one together myself. Here you go:

http://www.robotacid.com/PBeta/eye_monster/index.html

edit: I've read the submission guidelines now - emailed.

Really nice work, st33d!
Found a bug though.. click on the applet and drag the mouse outside of the applet

or you might call it a feature

seltar

Lol, looks cool. Will attempt one after exams!!

My monster is complete and I have sent an email to the OP. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to host the monster myself. Also, it's not nearly as interesting or impressive as some of the other Monsters I've seen.

Some Post-Mortem thoughts:

- I had only upgraded to version 1.0.1 just today so things like PShape were totally unknown/unavailable to me. When I started, I had made the Panda out of a .GIF, which to me looks a little washed-out/blurry. By the time PShape was available to me I didn't want to delay the release any further by going over and making the bear out of PShape--since I would first have to "learn" how PShape works first. If there was one thing I could change on a whim, it would be this.

- I learned a lot about OOP practice. One breakthrough was the Limb Class. I was unsure if whether or not an Object was allowed to have a separate Object inside of it, and was "coding-blind" so to speak inbetween a running-version w/out the Limb Class and finally getting to a functional Limb Class. When I made it to the other side, I was extremely pleased that it worked after fixing a small typographical error. I seem to be getting better and better at creating Objects and Classes.

- The biggest obstacle of them all, even before inventing the Limb Class, was figuring out how to get an Ellipse to sway back and forth. I studied the heck out of sin and even someone else's code that involved spinning a dot around in a circular path (later scrapped). Eventually after screen-sharing over several sessions with a friend I was able to hammer something out. This also required some better understanding of rotate() which I wasn't able to know until I got to chapter 14 in Shiffman's Book. (probably could've saved me a day or two if I had gotten to that chapter sooner)

- The first thing I made were the trees, which regrettably don't do a very good job of making things look interesting. I also wanted some grayed-out background hills to scroll slowly to give a parallax-effect, but had to respect Vojir's B&W-only rule and scrapped the idea.

- None of the code uses P3D either because I'm still quite new to that concept, so I had to be a little clever with the order that Processing draws the 2D elements.

Overall, I had fun. Processing is really gratifying sometimes.

vojir hasn't updated the site with my monster yet. :/ dang.

Dang he STILL hasn't put my monster on his site! I know it's bad but c'mon... it's not THAT bad!