# WCCChallenge: Spirals

For this week's challenge : ***Spirals***, I decided to bring back [LiveCodeLab](https://livecodelab.net/) for an Audiovisual coded narrative of spirals named

## Spiraling Orbit

I wanted the movements to not only represent a spiral in shape but also depict, spiraling upwards and downwards . This was achievable through using the ***sin/cos/tan*** functions , ***wave*** function and time with modulo function.

The audio added is to maintain the feeling of this orbit being in a constant spiral.
This constant sound allows the *spiraling effect* to not only be heard and seen but also be sense in a state of “distress”

To play with the code, copy and paste it and then put it in the Livecodelab's site to see how the code functions.

As commonly seen in these **WCCChallenge** submissions by me, this post will contain a video, poem and the code to the submitted piece.

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### Poem

```text
Spiraling as the noise bounces
Bounces to the left
Bounces to the right
With no regard of the concept of depth
The concept of pace
Just knowing sometimes the colours or bright
And other times it needs to be dimmed
Needed to be simmed
With the spillover needing to be trimmed
To the continue with the rest of the steps
The rest of breaths
Ready, willing to pounce
``` 

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### Video

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mUOzlKBE66I" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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### Code

```Javascript

/*this block of code changes the bpm, the number 
of elements per scene and the adjustable size*/

if time % 30 > 20
	bpm 80 
	num = 400
	reSize = 0.2
else if time % 30 < 20 && time % 30 > 10
	bpm 40
	num = 500
	reSize = -0.2
else
	bpm 20
	num = 600
	reSize = 0.05

// musical elements 
play 'tranceKick'  ,'-x-x ---x x-x- x-xx'
play "alienBeep" + int(random 16) ,'x-x'
play "glass" + int(random 9) ,'x-ox--x'
play "cosmos"  ,'--x- -x-x --x- -x-xx'
play "hiss" + int(random 3) ,'x'
play "hoover" + int(random 4) ,'x-ox'

/*This block of code control the movement and background */

if time % 22 > 12
	scale ((sin(time % 6) + 0.5)/8) + 0.12
	simpleGradient red,orange,pink
else if time % 22 < 12 && time % 22 > 5
	scale ((sin(time % 9) + 0.5)/19) + 0.12
	simpleGradient teal,yellow,orange
else
	scale ((sin(time % 12) + 0.5)/27) + 0.19
	simpleGradient pink,aqua,red


rotate time
scale 0.7 + reSize

if time % 20 < 6
	animationStyle motionBlur
else if time % 20 > 13
	animationStyle paintOver

num times with i
	fill red
	stroke blue
	rotate time * 2 + sin(i), time * 3 - cos(i), time * 2 + tan(i)/(frame/100)
		move cos(time / 10), tan(wave(0.03)), sin(time % 10)
			rect 1 - cos(time), tan(wave(0.04)), tan(time * (wave(0.03)))

num times with i
	fill blue
	stroke black
	rotate time * 1.5 + sin(i), time * 1.2 - cos(i), time * 1.3 + tan(i)/(frame/100)
		move cos(time / 10)+ 10 - time%6, tan(wave(0.03)), sin(time % 10)
			rect 1 - cos(time), tan(wave(0.04)), tan(time * (wave(0.03)))

num times with i

	if time % 24 > 12
		fill white
		stroke green
	else
		fill gold
		stroke black

	rotate time * 3 - cos(i), time * 2 + tan(i)/(frame/100),time * 2 + sin(i)
		move cos(time / 10), tan(wave(0.03)), sin(time % 10)
			rect 1 - cos(time), tan(wave(0.04)), tan(time * (wave(0.03)))

```