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Random Walker in p5.js (Coding Challenge 52)

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In this coding challenge, I simulate a "random walk" with the p5.js library. This video is part of the course Nature of Code at ITP, Tisch, NYU. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/52-random-walker 🕹️ p5.js Web Editor Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/sketches/N-qqe1ExZ 🎥 Previous video: https://youtu.be/aKYlikFAV4k?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 Next video: https://youtu.be/bqF9w9TTfeo?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH References: 🚶🏽‍♀️ Random walk Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk 5️⃣ random Function Reference Page: https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/random 5️⃣ floor Function Reference Page: https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/floor 📕 The Nature of Code GitHub (Spring 2017): https://github.com/nature-of-code/NOC-S17-1-Physics-Animation Live Stream Archive: 🔴 Live Stream #73: https://youtu.be/RDULjRLn3pk Related Coding Challenges: 🚂 #53 Random Walker with Vectors and Lévy Flight: https://youtu.be/bqF9w9TTfeo 🚂 #162 Self Avoiding Walk: https://youtu.be/m6-cm6GZ1iw Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction to the Random Walker Coding Challenge 1:56 Whiteboard explanation of a random walk 6:48 Into the code...drawing a point! 7:30 Picking a random number between 0 and 4 using p5.js's 'random' and 'floor' functions 9:58 Setting up the code to use the random number 12:26 First run! The point...it wibbles...it wobbles 12:48 Stop clearing the background every frame so that we can see the point's path 13:10 Discussion of the possibilities of the random walker Editing by Mathieu Blanchette Animations by Jason Heglund Music from Epidemic Sound 🚂 Website: http://thecodingtrain.com/ 👾 Share Your Creation! https://thecodingtrain.com/guides/passenger-showcase-guide 🚩 Suggest Topics: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Suggestion-Box 💡 GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/hPuGy2g 💖 Membership: http://youtube.com/thecodingtrain/join 🛒 Store: https://standard.tv/codingtrain 🖋️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecodingtrain 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.coding.train/ 🎥 Coding Challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 Intro to Programming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9cueOFTFA 🔗 p5.js: https://p5js.org 🔗 p5.js Web Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/ 🔗 Processing: https://processing.org 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct This description was auto-generated. If you see a problem, please open an issue: https://github.com/CodingTrain/thecodingtrain.com/issues/new #random #floor #randomwalker #p5js #javascript #processing #java

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'duration': 7.666}, {'end': 402.069, 'text': 'OK, so come over here with me.', 'start': 399.648, 'duration': 2.421}, {'end': 404.55, 'text': "Let's take the train over to the computer.", 'start': 402.249, 'duration': 2.301}], 'summary': 'Random function picks from 0-3 to move walker on screen.', 'duration': 27.18, 'max_score': 377.37, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/l__fEY1xanY/pics/l__fEY1xanY377370.jpg'}, {'end': 448.805, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 425.854, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 433.198, 'text': "y equals 200, and I am going to, I'm going to just draw a point at x and y.", 'start': 425.854, 'duration': 7.344}, {'end': 439.541, 'text': "I'm going to say stroke 255, and I'm also going to say stroke weight two, just so it's a little bit more visible.", 'start': 433.198, 'duration': 6.343}, {'end': 445.103, 'text': "And if I now refresh the page, we can see, there it is, there's my random walker.", 'start': 440.241, 'duration': 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uniform distribution and the potential for non-uniform distributions in the context of random walks.', 'The random walker starts at point (x, 200) and each step is a random number between 0 and 4.', 'Implementing a non-object-oriented program to adjust the x or y position based on randomly picked numbers, with the potential for future addition of objects.']}, {'end': 941.011, 'segs': [{'end': 573.193, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 512.489, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 515.511, 'text': 'which is I can put this function floor around it.', 'start': 512.489, 'duration': 3.022}, {'end': 520.836, 'text': 'And what the floor function does, there are a bunch of functions that I can use.', 'start': 516.111, 'duration': 4.725}, {'end': 522.577, 'text': "Where's my marker? Here it is.", 'start': 521.356, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 523.477, 'text': 'In P5.', 'start': 523.278, 'duration': 0.199}, {'end': 531.782, 'text': 'to take a floating point number like 3.4 and convert it to an integer.', 'start': 525.637, 'duration': 6.145}, {'end': 538.828, 'text': 'If I use the floor function, it will make that number 3.', 'start': 532.403, 'duration': 6.425}, {'end': 544.974, 'text': 'If I use the ceiling function, CEIL, it will make that number four.', 'start': 538.828, 'duration': 6.146}, {'end': 549.921, 'text': 'If I use the round function, it will make that number three.', 'start': 545.574, 'duration': 4.347}, {'end': 554.187, 'text': "So floor, even if it's 3.9999999, just lops off the decimal place and makes it three.", 'start': 550.441, 'duration': 3.746}, {'end': 565.108, 'text': "If ceiling, no matter what it is, whether it's 3.9 or 3.1 or 3.2, goes up to the nearest integer.", 'start': 560.264, 'duration': 4.844}, {'end': 570.631, 'text': 'so floor goes down to the nearest integer, seal goes up to the nearest integer and then round rounds it.', 'start': 565.108, 'duration': 5.523}, {'end': 573.193, 'text': 'So 3.4 becomes three, 3.6 becomes four.', 'start': 570.651, 'duration': 2.542}], 'summary': 'The floor function converts floating point numbers to integers, rounding down to the nearest integer, while the ceiling function rounds up, and the round function rounds to the nearest integer.', 'duration': 60.704, 'max_score': 512.489, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/l__fEY1xanY/pics/l__fEY1xanY512489.jpg'}, {'end': 662.011, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 635.583, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 640.31, 'text': "So I'm going to have to look up this syntax, because I can freely admit that I can never remember this.", 'start': 635.583, 'duration': 4.727}, {'end': 642.894, 'text': 'Case statement JavaScript.', 'start': 640.711, 'duration': 2.183}, {'end': 644.842, 'text': "Let's see where we get.", 'start': 643.962, 'duration': 0.88}, {'end': 647.684, 'text': "Let's go to switch here.", 'start': 645.863, 'duration': 1.821}, {'end': 650.926, 'text': 'So you can see here, this is the statement.', 'start': 647.884, 'duration': 3.042}, {'end': 652.066, 'text': 'This is the syntax.', 'start': 651.146, 'duration': 0.92}, {'end': 654.908, 'text': 'Switch expression.', 'start': 652.446, 'duration': 2.462}, {'end': 658.129, 'text': 'Expression meaning a particular, in this case, a particular variable.', 'start': 655.068, 'duration': 3.061}, {'end': 662.011, 'text': 'The case of when this variable has this value, do this stuff.', 'start': 658.469, 'duration': 3.542}], 'summary': 'Exploring javascript switch statement syntax and functionality.', 'duration': 26.428, 'max_score': 635.583, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/l__fEY1xanY/pics/l__fEY1xanY635583.jpg'}, {'end': 766.807, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 732.181, 'weight': 0.782, 'content': [{'end': 735.325, 'text': 'And to move up is y equals y minus one.', 'start': 732.181, 'duration': 3.144}, {'end': 742.412, 'text': "Okay, so we now have this switch statement where I'm picking one of these four options.", 'start': 736.646, 'duration': 5.766}, {'end': 743.313, 'text': 'And here we go.', 'start': 742.753, 'duration': 0.56}, {'end': 747.355, 'text': "Let's go back to our code, run it, and look at that.", 'start': 744.673, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 748.696, 'text': "There's our random walk.", 'start': 747.675, 'duration': 1.021}, {'end': 757.481, 'text': "Now, interestingly enough, this doesn't look like some of the images I showed you in the intro to this video that I haven't actually made yet,", 'start': 748.916, 'duration': 8.565}, {'end': 758.702, 'text': "because that's going to happen after.", 'start': 757.481, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 766.807, 'text': 'What I want to do is I want to see the path of this random walker just in terms of the sort of classic way to 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'duration': 10.709}, {'end': 789.385, 'text': "And now if I do this again, we can see, look at this, there's our random walker.", 'start': 784.801, 'duration': 4.584}, {'end': 797.829, 'text': "So I now propose to you, at the end, I'm going to do a couple more videos with some variations on this theme, but this is a really simple concept.", 'start': 789.685, 'duration': 8.144}], 'summary': 'Visualizing a random walk in 2d space using processing.js', 'duration': 38.847, 'max_score': 758.982, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/l__fEY1xanY/pics/l__fEY1xanY758982.jpg'}, {'end': 890.812, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 860.504, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 862.885, 'text': "I think I said 3D already, so there's a lot of things.", 'start': 860.504, 'duration': 2.381}, {'end': 864.525, 'text': "Oh, and here's the thing that's even more important.", 'start': 862.945, 'duration': 1.58}, {'end': 869.506, 'text': 'This is just a pure visual example of the random walk.', 'start': 864.885, 'duration': 4.621}, {'end': 876.228, 'text': "But what if you don't think about the outcome of the random walk being just a dot moving in a 2D space?", 'start': 870.146, 'duration': 6.082}, {'end': 880.509, 'text': "What if it's a random walk that's actually changing notes in a melody?", 'start': 876.528, 'duration': 3.981}, {'end': 884.31, 'text': 'What if a musical composition or a dance performance?', 'start': 880.809, 'duration': 3.501}, {'end': 890.812, 'text': 'What are some other ways you can take this random walk idea and make it into a project that has some kind of creative expression associated with it?', 'start': 884.59, 'duration': 6.222}], 'summary': 'Exploring the concept of random walk in creative projects.', 'duration': 30.308, 'max_score': 860.504, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/l__fEY1xanY/pics/l__fEY1xanY860504.jpg'}], 'start': 512.489, 'title': 'Using floor function, javascript switch statement', 'summary': 'Explains using the floor function to convert floating point numbers to integers in p5, discusses the ceiling and round functions with examples, and introduces the switch statement in javascript as an alternative to if-else statements, demonstrating its use in creating a random walk program with potential creative applications in art, music, and computer graphics.', 'chapters': [{'end': 591.143, 'start': 512.489, 'title': 'Using floor function and understanding rounding', 'summary': 'Explains the use of the floor function to convert floating point numbers to integers in p5, and also discusses the ceiling and round functions with examples. it also mentions the potential use of a switch statement.', 'duration': 78.654, 'highlights': ['The floor function in P5 converts a floating point number like 3.4 to an integer, making it 3, while the ceiling function makes it four.', 'The round function rounds the number to the nearest integer, making 3.4 become three and 3.6 become four.', 'The chapter briefly mentions the potential use of a switch statement, addressing the common query from viewers.', 'The explanation distinguishes between the floor, ceiling, and round functions, providing a clear understanding of their respective behaviors.']}, {'end': 941.011, 'start': 591.263, 'title': 'Javascript switch statement', 'summary': 'Introduces the switch statement in javascript as an alternative to if-else statements, demonstrating how to use it to create a random walk program, while also highlighting potential creative applications of random walk concepts in art, music, and computer graphics.', 'duration': 349.748, 'highlights': ['The chapter introduces the switch statement in JavaScript as an alternative to if-else statements It demonstrates using the switch statement to create a random walk program, providing a practical example of its application.', 'The speaker discusses potential creative applications of random walk concepts in art, music, and computer graphics Examples include creating random walk art, exploring random walks in 2D and 3D, employing random walks in musical composition, dance performances, and computer graphics, as well as experimenting with different variations of random walks such as the Levy Flight and self-avoiding walks.', 'Encouragement for the audience to share their random walk examples The speaker invites the audience to share their random walk examples via Twitter, Slack, or comments, expressing a willingness to showcase community-made random walk projects in future videos.']}], 'duration': 428.522, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/l__fEY1xanY/pics/l__fEY1xanY512489.jpg', 'highlights': ['The chapter introduces the switch statement in JavaScript as an alternative to if-else statements, demonstrating its use in creating a random walk program with potential creative applications in art, music, and computer graphics.', 'The speaker discusses potential creative applications of random walk concepts in art, music, and computer graphics, including creating random walk art, exploring random walks in 2D and 3D, employing random walks in musical composition, dance performances, and computer graphics, as well as experimenting with different variations of random walks such as the Levy Flight and self-avoiding walks.', 'The floor function in P5 converts a floating point number like 3.4 to an integer, making it 3, while the ceiling function makes it four.', 'The round function rounds the number to the nearest integer, making 3.4 become three and 3.6 become four.']}], 'highlights': ['Random walk is a stochastic process used to model various phenomena such as animal foraging, stock price fluctuation, and scientific simulations.', 'The presenter plans to expand the challenge by exploring variations such as moving from 2D to 3D, adjusting step size, and incorporating vectors and object-oriented programming.', 'Computers can produce pseudo-random numbers using a mathematical formula, which have an essentially random probability over time.', 'Exploring different distributions for random numbers, such as moving down more often, moving towards the mouse with a 50% chance, and following a bell curve or Gaussian distribution.', "The function 'random' in p5 generates random numbers with a uniform distribution, ensuring each number has an equal likelihood of being picked.", 'Emphasizing the need for a good random number generator, with a focus on the uniform distribution and the potential for non-uniform distributions in the context of random walks.', 'The chapter introduces the switch statement in JavaScript as an alternative to if-else statements, demonstrating its use in creating a random walk program with potential creative applications in art, music, and computer graphics.', 'The speaker discusses potential creative applications of random walk concepts in art, music, and computer graphics, including creating random walk art, exploring random walks in 2D and 3D, employing random walks in musical composition, dance performances, and computer graphics, as well as experimenting with different variations of random walks such as the Levy Flight and self-avoiding walks.']}