Senior Project: Week 7

Two features were added with this latest version of my program that will help me get a better grasp on how the randomized drawings are rendered and see if I can scale each and every result to the screen.

1. A red bounding box is drawn around each iteration

I now have the ability to see (and calculate) the bounds of each iteration, which means hopefully I can pre-calculate and then scale-to-fit each drawing. Big drawings will come into view, and small drawings will be a little more interesting.

2. An informative text file for each painting

I can now extract a few important pieces of information: the string which serves as instructions for the painting (Most paintings have instructions that are thousands of characters long), the amount of points drawn, and the time the painting was drawn. I can see this information being used in two ways: 1) to add additional complexity to the paintings. Maybe the color of the background depends on the time of day the painting was rendered, for example. 2) procure better results. If I can calculate the size of paintings before they are rendered, then uninteresting paintings that are too large or two small can be taken out.