After Christmas break, we sterted working with 2D algorythmic art. We were divided into small groups and each of group had to use the existing data to turn it into an visualization art.
We used the Nasa’s Global Temperature Data as the base for our project.
We spent three days in total on our work.
The code, we created, was written mainly in p5.js. Inside the code, we built four arrays dor each decade, and another array for months. I was absent on Monday so someone else wrote most of the code. When I came on Tuesday, there were three people already in my group. Everyone did set their role. I was about to help with the code mainly but I ended up giving ideas and slightly touched the code because of anxiety of breaking something.
Working in a group was challenging for me, my general anxiety took over me, and I had a problem to focus on the project. My group noticed that, and tried to encourage me, it helped but I was feeling quite useless because I couldn’t put my 100% in the project that I should enjoy.
Adding interactivity and assigning sliders, knobs and buttons to make animation, colour and date changes, rotate clockwise and vice versa was fun for me and the rest of my group. I was making suggestions, and everyone else agreed or had different ideas. I didn’t feel useless.
Music was created a day before the show day. Three of us decided to try to work on the music part, one stayed with the code. It was the time, I enjoyed the most. We were playing with a keyboard, sliders, and music maker software. Each of us had a role, for example, I was using a keyboard and some sliders. Each of us created a part of our background music but something was missing. We were not fully satisfied with what we created. Then one of us had an idea to copy the whole path, reverse it and merge it with the base soundtrack. It did work and everyone was happy. By the end of the day, we tested everything.
On Friday morning we went to a different building, where four big screens were already installed. We were preparing for the 2025 Banking Hall/Havers Rd project which started in the same afternoon.
Every student could invite someone (family members or friends) to come and see our work. I didn’t ask anyone to come. I didn’t plan to stay till the end as well but I changed my decision as I had a lot of fun. The only disadvantage was that I couldn’t show it to anyone and tell about my course.
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