Project #3 Experimental Clock
Description
Description I reseived
Conventional clocks mark seconds, minutes, and hours according to a 24 hour cycle. This segmented, discrete, and regimented approach to parsing time is not universal in terms of capturing and measuring of experience. In this assignment you are tasked with developing an experimental clock. This clock can function in ways that ordinary clocks cannot. In order to complete this assignment you are invited to think of time expansively and alternatively, moving beyond conventional time keeping units. What are other ways in which you can mark the passage of time? What if time itself were turned on its head, driven not by standard time-keeping units, but perhaps subjective, personal, or even irrational organization? This is an individual assignment. You are welcome to ideate and brainstorm with your peers, but the work you submit should be your own.
A description for my experimental clock.
My idea is to use the birthday cake as a “clock” to calculate time.
The “day passed” counter will count to 365 and then return to 0 and
add one more year to the year counter. The triangle button will
increase as the day passes. Also, the button beside the age counter
will increase the passing year time.
At age 0-4, we are in a newborn baby form, 5-7 is a baby form, 8-11 is
a kid, 12- 16 is a young teen, 17-25 is teen, 26-35 is adult, 36-50 is
middle age, 51-71 is old middle age, 72-100 is old age, and after 100
is a coffin(representing death). Every different stage of age will
have a different icon on top to represent the passing of time. I also
double the cake at 16 since I feel like the grown-up kid can finish a
larger cake at age 16.
Design sketches
The testing feild
Reflection
How is it novel to you and how might it alter the way you track / keep time?
I don’t have a decrease button because time only moves forward, and humans only grow older. I feel like birthdays is relatively important for people, since that’s the day that one was born, and that’s a full year of cycle to go through.
Describe your design process. Include all three of your design sketches and explain how you’ve ended up choosing one.
My initial three ideas are: Birthday Cake, The day counter(as the time
goes by, the different color blocks fill the background), and the moon
counter(a clock that shows different moons going by the sky)
I chose birthday cake because I had a friend who recently had her
birthday, we celebrated her birthday together, and she had to describe
to me that she feels like a birthday is something very unique and
special for one.
What’s your overall reflection on this assignment? What have you learned throughout the process of designing an unconventional clock?
My overall reflection on this assignment is that sometimes I can save more time by using Illustrator than actually drawing in p5js. Since this time, I had different icons to draw, I started drawing in p5js, and I have realized that that took me too much time (after also drawing the cake and the frosting in p5js). This clock really makes me think of time when I’m actually spending a lot of time on it.
What I have learned (coding language)
* loadImage("location of image")
* loadFont("location of image")
* map(value, start1, stop1, start2, stop2, true)
* hour()
* minute()
* second()
* millis()