Ah, February.

I enjoy February. It's the Humpday month of winter. December and January are behind us, March and the beginning of April just beyond our reach. 

To add to your February enjoyment, I'm thrilled to announce that Lavender Honey is getting a new website! Wohoo!

Over the weekend, when we weren't running errands or finally getting around to taking down our Christmas lights, I was working on a list of goals and forming a plan for this fresh-faced Lavender Honey. 

I have zero experience building websites but what does that matter, right? I would normally turn to Chris for such a tech-savvy venture - he could build a website whilst sleeping, ill, and/or drunk - but he's slammed at work so I'm on my own. 

For what it's worth, I did have to code once for an architecture course. 

The assignment was to code swarming behavior. You know, like bees or ants. I chose moths and now that I think about it, I'm not positive that moths swarm at all. All I know is that those ugly, brown, beady-eyed bugs swarming around lights at night was the first thing I thought of that day.

I decided that I would call my final project "Like Moth to a Flame" and I would somehow code moth behavior in a program called Processing. Based on my observation of general moth behavior, there would need to be three different kinds of moths:

1. Busy Moth: This  moth is, well, just busy. He flies from light to light acting as a normal moth should.

2. Lazy Moth: This moth is one of those moths that just sits on the light and does nothing. He may fly from one light to another, but he comes to a halt. 

3. Crazy Moth: You know this moth. He's the one that doesn't slow down. Instead, he flies around and around and around, making you dizzy just watching him. I thought about calling him Yeyo Moth, but Crazy Moth is more professor-friendly. 

Check it out, they don't bite.

Here are the key codes to play:

Click on the lights and drag them around.
Right click to toggle the lights on and off. The moths are only attracted to lights that are on.
Press the space bar to invert the lights.

Press the 'd' key to kill some moths.
Press the 'b' key to add a busy moth.
Press the 'l' key to add a lazy moth.
Press the 'c' key to add a crazy moth.
Press the 'x' key to add a red busy moth. This contrasting moth will allow you to see the individual movements of the busy moth more clearly.  

Stick around, this new website thing could get interesting!

Click here to try out the moths, or just watch this video of them in action:

Like a Moth to a Flame from Erin Bolton on Vimeo.