During the coaching with Clint, we got the advice to continue working with control over the aspects we already had in the sketch, such as the color, speed, how and when it moves in a more nuanced way. I think this was a great help since we were thinking of adding more features that we could control instead of working on the nuances of what we already had.
Working with what we already had, we wanted to control the color of the ball. Our previous sketch had a broad spectrum of colors to visualize the small changes in the sound environment, but this also made it too responsive, and it became difficult to get a sense of control. Therefore, we reduced the number of colors to three but still let the size change be responsive. This increased the feeling of control over the colors, but at the same time, we lost the feeling of the ball being sensitive to changes in the sound.
We also added, so the x- and y-values are affected by the sound when the ball change direction to give the ball a little more life of its own.
The speed control works well, but to add even more control, we added the possibility to stop the ball for as long as you want.
We use a threshold value for when it should stop. It works, but it also limits the ball to always stop in a red state. Hopefully, we can change this, but I feel that we have been able to iterate on the control we had from the beginning, and we will see how much more we can alter and iterate before the show and tell.