I have to say I really enjoy reading your text and the program, not only this one but all your previous exercises that you have done. Of course one of the advantages that you have would be the prior experience that you have with other programming language (I think I got this idea through your ex1-README). However, I really appreciate the attitude that you have, including going extra miles in working with your sketch, and trying to embrace failure. Also the way you suggest to learn code is by doing it. On the other note, there are also few people in the class are interested in sound/music, which is nice as we have more diverse projects :)
Let me first describe your project. The audio part is definitely enriching with some kind of meditative sound running in the background (but i am quite sure the music is played in a looping sequence). A relatively big facebook icon is placed in the middle. Since my mouse is on the bottom right corner, the fish basically stops. But if i move around my mouse, the fish (grey color stroke) follows my mouse movements. Interestingly, the fish also able to turn around according to the left/right side of my mouse movement. Additionally, if the fish (that is my mouse) touches the central logo, there are plenty of thumb up (facebook) icons emitted, spreading outside of the canvas. But what I have observed is that the thumb up icons are spreading in different speed, some are faster and others are slower. There are also some subtle text appears occasionally, in the form of transparent grey color text, and without looking at the source I think I have no clue on when they will appear.
By looking at the source code, I discover more features e.g the redirection of a page when the mouse is totally off the canvas (both x and y coordinate). It also gives me a glue on how text are display. But I have to say sometimes the text won't appear when the fish touches the right side of the facebook icon. (See attached as the example case - without thumb up icons and text)
From the source code, I also see that you have experimented a lot of different things, including creation of your own functions (and some with arguments), import p5.play library and use some of the play functions like addAnimation and createSprite, as well as trying out the scaling and velocity syntax. I can also see that you are trying to build a complex program which is great! I also learn a lot from you on the play library.
You have described your thinking process in your README file, and this is a pleasure to read thanks! But if I have to push you further, I would be asking you to reflect a bit more about the notion of data capturing process in digital culture. Though you have mentioned how we are attached with social media nowadays, it would be great if you could zoom in this aspect, or perhaps in relation to feedback and the notion of stream as your have stated. So in this way, does capturing process include loneliness? what kind of affective quality it has been captured? What might be the process of facebook that implements this technically? To be more specific, I would like to know how might this ex helps you to think about or understand the data capturing process in digital culture?
I really like your secrete ending though, i wonder if there is an exit in real world ;p No worries with the extra effort, I definitely appreciate that. I am sure your classmates can learn a lot from you as well.
I have to say I really enjoy reading your text and the program, not only this one but all your previous exercises that you have done. Of course one of the advantages that you have would be the prior experience that you have with other programming language (I think I got this idea through your ex1-README). However, I really appreciate the attitude that you have, including going extra miles in working with your sketch, and trying to embrace failure. Also the way you suggest to learn code is by doing it. On the other note, there are also few people in the class are interested in sound/music, which is nice as we have more diverse projects :)
Let me first describe your project. The audio part is definitely enriching with some kind of meditative sound running in the background (but i am quite sure the music is played in a looping sequence). A relatively big facebook icon is placed in the middle. Since my mouse is on the bottom right corner, the fish basically stops. But if i move around my mouse, the fish (grey color stroke) follows my mouse movements. Interestingly, the fish also able to turn around according to the left/right side of my mouse movement. Additionally, if the fish (that is my mouse) touches the central logo, there are plenty of thumb up (facebook) icons emitted, spreading outside of the canvas. But what I have observed is that the thumb up icons are spreading in different speed, some are faster and others are slower. There are also some subtle text appears occasionally, in the form of transparent grey color text, and without looking at the source I think I have no clue on when they will appear.
By looking at the source code, I discover more features e.g the redirection of a page when the mouse is totally off the canvas (both x and y coordinate). It also gives me a glue on how text are display. But I have to say sometimes the text won't appear when the fish touches the right side of the facebook icon. (See attached as the example case - without thumb up icons and text)
From the source code, I also see that you have experimented a lot of different things, including creation of your own functions (and some with arguments), import p5.play library and use some of the play functions like addAnimation and createSprite, as well as trying out the scaling and velocity syntax. I can also see that you are trying to build a complex program which is great! I also learn a lot from you on the play library.
You have described your thinking process in your README file, and this is a pleasure to read thanks! But if I have to push you further, I would be asking you to reflect a bit more about the notion of data capturing process in digital culture. Though you have mentioned how we are attached with social media nowadays, it would be great if you could zoom in this aspect, or perhaps in relation to feedback and the notion of stream as your have stated. So in this way, does capturing process include loneliness? what kind of affective quality it has been captured? What might be the process of facebook that implements this technically? To be more specific, I would like to know how might this ex helps you to think about or understand the data capturing process in digital culture?
I really like your secrete ending though, i wonder if there is an exit in real world ;p No worries with the extra effort, I definitely appreciate that. I am sure your classmates can learn a lot from you as well.
Keep it up!
/Winnie