Project #5 Optical Illusion
Description
Description I reseived
In this week's lecture, we introduced multiple examples of how optical illusions were deployed to obfuscate personal information, communictaion, and locations. For this assignment, we ask that you create an optical illusion that animates, then consider possible ways your work may be deployed in the world around you. In addition to the examples provided in lecture and weekly tutorials, Nazia Fakhruddin has written a handful of interesting ways to create visual illusions in p5.js on Medium, and the Illusion Index documents various types of optical illusions you may incorporate into your work. Optical illusion, which stems from pattern-making, is an ancient and culturally diverse practice. We encourage you to consider your cultural experience (e.g. environment you've grown up in, media you were informed by, materials you had access to) as a starting point of the design process.
Describtion for my Optical Illusion
Johannes Itten’s work inspires this work. Johannes Itten is one of the “Masters” in the Bauhaus school. I really like the combination of colors and shapes. By clicking the surface, the squares change colors, and also there will be a circle following the curser. I used blendMode() for this project (for the circle) and used random to put blendMode in (DARKEST) or (LIGHTEST) to change the different color responses. Also by pressing the key “s” the user can save the pattern they create.
Design sketches
The testing feild
The try-out design
In this testing field, I tried to stack the pattern by keep adding the same but a little off squares in the middle, I think it’s quite interesting to see how different color blend with each other. However, I eventually went to the simple design because I found this design a little bit too busy to look at.
Reflection
How might your optical illusion get deployed in the world around you? May it be incorporated into a browser extension? Can it possibly be turned into a piece of wearable?
I think this work in some way can bring back people’s awareness to the artist Johannes Itten and how he’s related to the Bauhaus school. Personally I find that school at that time quite revolutionary and important. It’s about innovation and trying out new concepts. * I think it’s very much possible be turned into a piece of wearable, for the color and cubic shapes, it will make an interesting piece.
What I have learned (coding language)
* blendMode(DARKEST);
* blendMode(LIGHTEST);
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