Published December 23, 2018 © GPL3+

Rotational Symmetry Drawing

Use potentiometer inputs from Arduino along with your mouse to control a rotational symmetry drawing program in Processing.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO

Rotary potentiometer (generic)

Jumper wires (generic)

Story

Control a symmetry design sketch in Processing using your mouse and potentiometers as drawing tools. Left click controls penup/pendown and right click clears the screen. Use 3 potentiometer inputs to control the RGB colors of a symmetry design sketch in Processing. Additional design inputs such as number of symmetries and ellipse size are directly coded into the Processing sketch, but could be moved to the Arduino side of the project as well.

////Inputs/////
int rotation = 8;//type in rotational symmetry
color backgroundColor = 255;//type in background color
//int penColor = color(255,0,0);//type in pen color
int xSize = 10;
int ySize = 10;
///////////////

The code for this was adapted from Arduino -- Examples -- Communication -- SerialCallResponse.

You can use a breadboard for the potentiometer inputs, but for fun I made a console out of wood and used a screw shield for more secure connections.

Code

int potArduino0;
int potArduino1;
int potArduino2;

int inByte = 0;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  establishContact();
}

void loop() {
  if(Serial.available() > 0){
    inByte = Serial.read();
    
    potArduino0 = analogRead(A0)/4;
    Serial.write(potArduino0);
    delay(10);

    potArduino1 = analogRead(A1)/4;
    Serial.write(potArduino1);
    delay(10);

    potArduino2 = analogRead(A2)/4;
    Serial.write(potArduino2);
    delay(10);
  }
}

void establishContact(){
  while(Serial.available() <= 0){
    Serial.println('A');
    delay(300);
  }
}

//Right click pen up/down
//Left click clear

////Inputs/////
int rotation = 8;//type in rotational symmetry
color backgroundColor = 255;//type in background color
//int penColor = color(255,0,0);//type in pen color
int xSize = 10;
int ySize = 10;
///////////////

boolean penTool = true;

import processing.serial.*;
Serial myPort;
int[] serialArray = new int[3];
int serialCount = 1;
int red;//serial input A0
int green;//serial input A1
int blue;//serial input A2
int penColor;//type in pen color 
boolean firstContact = false;

void setup() {
  size(500, 500);
  background(backgroundColor);
  noStroke();
  rectMode(CENTER);
  String portName = Serial.list()[0];
  myPort = new Serial(this, portName, 9600);

  instructions();
}

void instructions() {
  textSize(14);
  textAlign(LEFT);
  fill(0);
  text("Left click - pen up/down", 5, 493);
  textAlign(RIGHT);
  text("Right click - clear screen", 495, 493);
}

void serialEvent(Serial myPort) {
  int inByte = myPort.read();
  //println(inByte);
  if (firstContact == false) {
    if (inByte == 'A') {
      myPort.clear();
      firstContact = true;
      myPort.write('A');
      println('A');
    }
  } else {
    serialArray[serialCount] = inByte;
    serialCount++;
    if(serialCount > 2){
      red = serialArray[0]; 
      println("red: " + red);
      green = serialArray[1]; 
      println("green: " + green);
      blue = serialArray[2]; 
      println("blue: " + blue);
      delay(10);

      myPort.write('A');
      serialCount = 0;
    }
  }
}

void colorCheck(){
  fill(255);
  rect(width/2, 490, 120, 10);
  textAlign(LEFT);
  textSize(10);
  fill(0);
  text("R: " + red, (width/2)-60, 495);
  text("G: " + green, (width/2)-15, 495);
  text("B: " + blue, (width/2)+25, 495);
}

void draw() {
  penColor = color(red,green,blue);
  fill(penColor);
  rect(width/2, 480, 120, 10);
  rotation();//enter the sides in variable above
  colorCheck();
}

void mouseClicked() {
  if (mouseButton == LEFT) {
    penTool = !penTool;
  }
  if (mouseButton == RIGHT) {
    background(color(backgroundColor));
    instructions();
  }
}

void rotation() {
  mouseX -= width/2;
  mouseY -= height/2;

  if (penTool) {
    translate(width/2, height/2);
    for (int i = 0; i < rotation; i++) {
      rotate(2*PI/rotation);
      ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, xSize, ySize);
    }
  }
}

Credits

eschulzpsd

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