Project Development

steps we have taken:

day 1:

• ground rules
• project idea clarified
• MVP decided
• slack created
• research into matter.js
• diagramming in multiple cycles
• blog started

day 2:

• initial set up of jasmine and matter.js via npm
• explored using jest for testing
• Jest took too much time to get running satisfactorily so decided to use jasmine.js for testing
• brainstorm class structure for our cells
• experimented with matter.js, creating basic shapes as bodies
• created basic class structure for implementing matter (cell and simulation)
• created controller to communicate between classes
• rendered a shape on the page!

day 3:

• physics of movement was explored and cells started moving
• walls were created at the edges of the canvas for the shapes to bounce off
• gravity got switched off

day 4:

• agreed structure of the code base
• got the animator class running
• created an event controller
• code extraction
• installed matter-collision-events plugin and researched collisions

DAY 5:

• spiked the cell collisions
• cell factory now produces cells and adds them to the world
• anything else??

weekend:

• merged in the cell movement
• ensured all tests pass
• explored growing cells
• pass in new objects to constructors
• css for browser - title and background