Many thanks for your program, Magus. I really like the conceptual framing of your piece i.e privacy and surveillance. Instead of recording things that we usually relate to voice capture, your piece is more a proactive way to force audiences to think about their concerns on privacy. I think the approach is very refreshing.
In viewing your web interface, i saw four components mainly. The first one is the bigger font, introducing the sentence "Voice your privacy concerns', but it seems the text display in a poor quality, not very sharply display (I will check out the code later). The center is a circle that responses to the sound using my microphone (sort of like a visualization of the sound volume). With a button on the bottom left, one can click on it and different text would be display. Due to the selection of particular text and sentences, it immediately turns the interaction into a dialogues, and it seems like responding to my concerns in a humorous way.
When looking at your source code, I found that the text quality issue is due to the fact that it overrides the previous text without clearing the previous text display on a screen. That's why you see the edges around the text characters. (you can use background to clear the screen for each running of the draw() function. You can then see the difference between the quality of the text)
It is really interesting to see how you describe your coding and thinking processes, and the uncertainty of coming up "an interesting design" or a concept. You may also to go to the sketch inspiration (on our github course page, the bottom section) to look for ideas, particularly the one with openprocessing where you can search sketches with different keywords. I am glad that you feel you are learning things through doing the exercise, where variables and array are so fundamental and useful in your forthcoming exercises and project too. In relation to DOM library and if you want to know more (+if you have time), you should check out shiffman's playlist on html+css+dom. All in all, I can see there are some kinds of thinking emerge in your sketch, both technically and conceptually. You are also justifying every components in your sketch which is a good sign. My question to you is about the thinking of button, how does "a nicely animated, responsive button over a more phony looking one" enhance or help your thinking of your sketch? I also want you to think about styling beyond the interface design, and to think about what does it mean by styling in a specific context like in your sketch?
Many thanks for your program, Magus. I really like the conceptual framing of your piece i.e privacy and surveillance. Instead of recording things that we usually relate to voice capture, your piece is more a proactive way to force audiences to think about their concerns on privacy. I think the approach is very refreshing.
In viewing your web interface, i saw four components mainly. The first one is the bigger font, introducing the sentence "Voice your privacy concerns', but it seems the text display in a poor quality, not very sharply display (I will check out the code later). The center is a circle that responses to the sound using my microphone (sort of like a visualization of the sound volume). With a button on the bottom left, one can click on it and different text would be display. Due to the selection of particular text and sentences, it immediately turns the interaction into a dialogues, and it seems like responding to my concerns in a humorous way.
When looking at your source code, I found that the text quality issue is due to the fact that it overrides the previous text without clearing the previous text display on a screen. That's why you see the edges around the text characters. (you can use background to clear the screen for each running of the draw() function. You can then see the difference between the quality of the text)
It is really interesting to see how you describe your coding and thinking processes, and the uncertainty of coming up "an interesting design" or a concept. You may also to go to the sketch inspiration (on our github course page, the bottom section) to look for ideas, particularly the one with openprocessing where you can search sketches with different keywords. I am glad that you feel you are learning things through doing the exercise, where variables and array are so fundamental and useful in your forthcoming exercises and project too. In relation to DOM library and if you want to know more (+if you have time), you should check out shiffman's playlist on html+css+dom. All in all, I can see there are some kinds of thinking emerge in your sketch, both technically and conceptually. You are also justifying every components in your sketch which is a good sign. My question to you is about the thinking of button, how does "a nicely animated, responsive button over a more phony looking one" enhance or help your thinking of your sketch? I also want you to think about styling beyond the interface design, and to think about what does it mean by styling in a specific context like in your sketch?
Keep it up!! See you next week.
/w