Flying Words
// Flying Words - Jim Bumgardner
String[] words = {"pondering", "squarely", "pregnant", "paws", "scold", "cordiality", "cooler",
"venturing", "variance", "hypothesis", "forefinger", "economic", "untimely",
"dubious", "shepherds", "secular", "minimum", "pallor", "degrading",
"fastidious", "desertion", "foretold", "heath", "discourage", "wintry",
"wrenched", "peas", "raiment", "pensive", "reproof", "ankle", "flattened",
"moore", "fisherman", "peninsula", "beholding", "identification", "wheeling",
"maine", "unhappiness", "richmond", "frantically", "enhanced", "gorge",
"extremities", "joyously", "stronghold", "hissed", "nut", "bowels",
"repressed", "lending", "feasts", "cavern", "unfold", "memoirs", "onto",
"invade", "ark", "structures", "forbids", "liver", "correctness", "abashed",
"stumble", "clerical", "orchestra", "terrifying", "enchantment",
"incomparable", "collapsed", "paler", "ballad", "recalls", "slack",
"restraining", "motley", "rippling", "circled", "ardor", "lambs", "flapping",
"shrug", "prettily", "avarice", "aforesaid", "educate", "glorified",
"acquiescence", "acquitted", "dungeon", "blasted", "objective", "persuading",
"fray", "forts", "statistics", "gathers", "levelled", "moderately",
"splashed", "mirrors", "infected", "vacancy", "furs", "mates", "grating",
"precipitate", "confiding", "ton", "grazing", "dispositions", "partnership",
"momentarily", "framework", "attorney", "regulating", "fathom", "nimble",
"ravages", "surpassing", "quieted", "hitting", "sustaining", "practiced",
"darkening", "walled", "withdrawal", "unawares", "exceptionally", "howard",
"fiend", "queens", "horseman", "dictates", "quarry", "waged", "coral",
"pleasanter", "badge", "assurances", "subsistence", "italians", "manned",
"alphabet", "bower", "reposed", "preachers", "variously", "anticipating",
"arabian", "melodious", "slate", "hourly", "bled", "dejected", "dreamt",
"discordant", "stormed", "purchasing", "sap", "unreal", "parlour", "dam",
"couples", "humblest", "postpone", "butterflies", "chaps", "yells", "paw",
"freeze", "forfeit", "eclipse", "advertisements", "dozens", "quitting",
"romances", "uphold", "drunkenness", "agonies", "guinea", "forge", "tearful",
"twig", "dispatched", "windy", "tidy", "bitterest", "dogged", "wastes",
"disconcerted", "irritable", "tunnel", "contentedly", "backing", "uniforms",
"gunpowder", "mineral", "pigeons", "repel", "pail", "territories", "ransom",
"stab", "draped", "redemption", "individually", "medicines", "azure", "bony",
"scissors", "ma", "invariable", "supplement", "repulsed", "entreaty",
"capitals", "forbearance", "adviser", "unavoidable", "raining", "enlighten",
"holiness", "countenances", "untold", "coil", "mutilated", "dancers",
"thankfulness", "buzzing", "armor", "spoiling", "narrower", "adhere",
"ardently", "undergoing", "indomitable", "devoting", "friction", "thrive",
"ravine", "diverse", "floats", "hazy", "twain", "aspire", "visage",
"quarrelling", "womanly", "shields", "initiative", "disappointments",
"elaborately", "civility", "disobedience", "splashing", "festivities",
"disasters", "bustling", "vicissitudes", "monopoly", "helen", "raid",
"marshes", "fitful", "consigned", "illustrates", "apprehensive",
"conscientiously", "fabulous", "colleagues", "profited", "wharf",
"grievances", "countryman", "laurels", "diversity", "monastery", "target",
"pounded", "conspicuously", "myriads", "hostilities", "atrocious", "vase",
"overturned", "redoubled", "mountainous", "swallowing", "layer", "adherents",
"sparing", "parchment", "trampling", "imaginations", "laughingly",
"fictitious", "jet", "widows", "picnic", "prospective", "valour", "absorb",
"yankee", "chocolate", "courtiers", "canoe", "chasm", "biscuit", "stairway",
"jars", "adjustment", "ancestral", "roving", "catholics", "psychological",
"milder", "adapt", "woollen", "loathsome", "rowing", "barracks", "signing",
"banker", "grunted", "slumbers", "garret", "midsummer", "ignoble", "savings",
"substantially", "resuming", "fostered", "mane", "prophesied", "forfeited",
"swan", "loosed", "fortifications", "gloriously", "vouchsafed", "oratory",
"jovial", "crescent", "stinging", "stamps", "commissions", "lanterns",
"caresses", "merest", "universities", "insurance", "draughts", "surmise",
"rebuked", "valid", "barbarians", "revolted", "humbled", "emerald",
"contradicted", "halfway", "marvels", "excel", "nervousness", "pier", "stall",
"illustrating", "grades", "surly", "utensils", "chagrin", "colouring",
"murders", "northwest", "widening", "pitiable", "keener", "kent", "devilish",
"conventions", "carving", "studded", "mat", "dwarf", "weights", "youngster",
"compels", "resounded", "dispatch", "fried", "completeness", "dismissal",
"undecided", "aiding", "dimmed", "plied", "illumined", "extensively",
"needing", "graphic", "embroidery", "glimmering", "sash", "sauntered",
"sniffed", "grasses", "pitcher", "rapt", "unerring", "offences", "exiled",
"sucked", "raced", "fig", "streaks", "halo", "religions", "rhetoric",
"advising", "fraught", "canadian", "hampered", "riders", "profile", "incur",
"excellency", "benediction", "gregory", "particles", "diminutive",
"chemistry", "infants", "lounging", "knocks", "elated", "mien", "propped",
"reverent", "antagonism", "wade", "exhaust", "unduly", "needy", "girlish",
"hoarsely", "mortified", "hercules", "initials", "scar", "flowery",
"reproduction", "absorption", "excelled", "stains", "facilitate", "modify",
"slap", "grounded", "wig", "lavished", "magnified", "agility", "hugh",
"sponge", "irishman", "cultivating", "stalked", "fumes", "metals", "arena",
"augmented", "enjoined", "fibre", "flushing", "biscuits", "attends", "nick",
"soaring", "follower", "boom", "surest", "rhine", "proclaiming", "snatching",
"paramount", "alluring", "clambered", "loom", "poultry", "intoxication",
"slaughtered", "perplexing", "impaired", "sleek", "patting", "conceited",
"squirrel", "inventor", "notably", "swells", "ripened", "click", "ethics",
"fairies", "adventurer", "summoning", "vocal", "jove", "scolded", "dwellers",
"uniformity", "sarah", "prairie", "capacities", "unfriendly", "uttermost",
"hens", "gear", "penance", "unbearable", "sewed", "legion", "disposing",
"mistook", "prestige", "organic", "unparalleled", "invaders", "laboriously",
"trench", "steeped", "distraction", "dipping", "groped", "slackened", "beak",
"salutary", "summits", "intrusted", "inanimate", "flowering", "reiterated",
"receding", "jagged", "adversity", "safeguard", "unacquainted", "stalks",
"axes", "alps", "hip", "mortality", "perverse", "apathy", "weighs", "julius",
"witnessing", "epithet", "childlike", "lunatic", "pretends", "convict",
"oblivious", "restlessly", "yarn", "offense", "chests", "runaway",
"dilapidated", "unfailing", "verdure", "cloudless", "ferry", "vista", "toll",
"prettier", "unearthly", "enlist", "feudal", "penitent", "scarf", "encamped",
"dedication", "mahogany", "relinquish", "residents", "salmon", "payments",
"meditations", "tragedies", "sufferers", "concludes", "arnold", "smoky",
"altars", "squadron", "pursuers", "sagacious", "abnormal", "bernard",
"reeled", "strangled", "cherry", "planets", "combatants", "bunches",
"feathered", "fearlessly", "therefrom", "canst", "precipitated", "likelihood",
"potato", "conquests", "intensified", "columbus", "hairy", "slapped",
"scrupulously", "immemorial", "buoyant", "graver", "warranted", "senator",
"excesses", "invading", "complimentary", "turks", "highness", "factors",
"vindictive", "shovel", "tenderest", "uncanny", "augustus", "propositions",
"detection", "efficacy", "artful", "iniquity", "emancipation", "listless",
"indolence", "lease", "purified", "grease", "unoccupied", "encounters",
"treasurer", "hereby", "narrated", "revel", "impetus", "legislative",
"wailed", "mexican", "disappoint", "impertinence", "abstraction", "pulls",
"submissive", "surged", "falsely", "sheriff", "wilder", "underwent",
"submitting", "prisons", "implicitly", "treasured", "sculpture", "spheres",
"trailed", "impassioned", "exacted", "converts", "pepper", "coloring",
"noiseless", "conflagration", "relatively", "maddened", "precincts", "versed",
"quartered", "culprit", "tunes", "torments", "birch", "fairness", "unsteady",
"terminate", "offender", "citadel", "ado", "compiled"};
class WordSprite {
String word;
float x, y;
float vx, vy;
color clr;
float wordWidth;
WordSprite(String word, float x, float y)
{
this.word = word;
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.vx = random(-2,2);
this.vy = random(-2,2);
clr = color( random(256), random(256), random(256) );
wordWidth = textWidth(word);
}
void doMovement()
{
x = x + vx;
y = y + vy;
// Bouncy sprites
if (x < -wordWidth/2) vx = abs(vx);
if (x > width+wordWidth/2) vx = -abs(vx);
if (y < 0) vy = abs(vy);
if (y > height+50) vy = -abs(vy);
}
void render()
{
fill(clr);
text(word, x, y);
}
}
PFont font;
int nbrWordSprites = 10;
WordSprite[] mySprites;
void setup()
{
size(500,500);
smooth();
font = createFont("Helvetica-Bold",72);
textFont(font, 72);
textAlign(CENTER);
mySprites = new WordSprite[nbrWordSprites];
for (int i = 0; i < nbrWordSprites; ++i) {
String word = words[int(random(words.length))];
float x = random(width);
float y = random(height);
mySprites[i] = new WordSprite(word, x, y);
}
}
void draw()
{
noStroke();
fill( 255, 20);
rect(0,0,width,height);
for (int i = 0; i < nbrWordSprites; ++i) {
mySprites[i].doMovement();
mySprites[i].render();
}
}