Describe your design process

It rained a lot last week here in Shanghai. I had quite some break time from classes just sitting there and watching the rain. I had time to space out and not think about anything or think about everything. So I wanted to recreate it. The curtain starts 20 secs after the code runs and it takes 2 mins and 30 secs to run over the canvas. The clock behind the curtain takes one miniature from start to an end. I left 20 secs at the beginning to have the viewers take a look at the raindrops and normally the first 20 secs of spacing out does not require any thinking. As for the rest 2 minutes and half. The viewer will be notified of every minute that has passed. The project was trying to think about time and things the society identifies as “valued”.As this semester went by very fast-paced, I have heard a lot of comments and I myself also made comments of how we just wasted certain time for doing nothing. I want to make this clock to potentially slow people down though reidentify time. 1 hour is not 60 mins, it could be 59/61 mins. 1 min is not 60 secs, coube be 59 that's fine. To explore the idea that not only doing homework is considered as meaningful but laying down and spacing out is not. I imagine this clock being presented on the building on the side of the street or bus station where people spend time waiting. The scenarios of the project would be standing on the side of the street and waiting for someone and instead of saying “just wasted 20 mins waiting for friend, it would be spend time watching the clock complete into a circle

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Reflection

This project was a big big challenge. I have spent a lot of time watching the tutorial and trying to understand how the for loop statement works and how millis works. I had to go through tutorials from lectures and also on youtube to get a basic understanding of it. The concept behind the clock is that: moving to Shanghai let me realize how fast paced this city is. Since I am someone who is often influenced by the environment. I feel this sense of sinking into a hole living in this city. Everyone is busy doing their own things and has goals or dreams they are chasing after. I wanted to create something that would allow/force people to slow down and to feel time/ space out if they want to. Therefore, I decided to create a cloak that is running slower than usual clock to potentially “slow down time”. Since it was raining when I was working on the project, I decided to incorporate rain into the clock. Ideally I wanted to create raindrops that can be cut from a brush but I had a hard time trying to figure out how. Therefore, I tried to create this curtain that moves down from the top to the bottom in a circle using “for loop” which takes forever to make. I have learned a lot from doing this project because it really helped me understand a bit more of coding.