Project #3 Experimental Clock

Description

Moonrise and Moonset Time

Design Process

I am a night person and I usually do my things like studying when everywhere is dark. Since I moved from living in a capital city to a small town for the school in the past two years, I got the chance to look at the moon every night and see it’s shapes, sizes and color changes in different hours and different nights of the month. So, now by looking at the sky and with its location up there, I am able to track time in a new way. The design began with three different ways of tracking time. When I thought about what sort of daily habits and experiences evoke the meaning of time to me, three first things that came up in mind were when the moon become visible, when my mother calling me because she is in a different time zone and usually she is calling me when she is wake up in a usually certain time, as well as the sound of my housemates’ walking upstairs in a certain time every morning. Then I thought about how one of those could become the material for my design and I tried to sketch and code my perception into P5.js.

Reflection

I found this assignment somehow different. Having conditionals and processes in a subject with different perception and experience formulating those conditionals by design was also difficult. But after struggling hours and figuring out how I can use the materials in this assignment, I feel I have gotten a better understanding of if/else conditional statements, Boolean variables and specially map(). The most challenging part of my assignment for this week was how I can map and move the moon with the slider in my sketch and how I can assign time outside of that mobile moon.