I start this project by considering what aspects can be manipulated with the passage of second, minute and hour. So I come up with the idea of growing size, color and transparency. Based on simple arc shapes, the second, minute and hour arc will change all those aspects in different rate. The second hand, for example, will change most dramatically so it creates this exploding effect every minute.

preliminary sketch:

sketch

//Zining Ye 
//15104 lecture 1 recitation C
//ziningy1@andrew.cmu.edu 
//Project-06



function setup() {
    createCanvas(480, 480) 
    
}

function draw() {

    var s = second();  
    var h = hour(); 
    var m = minute(); 
    var centerx= width/2;
    var centery= height/2;
    var adjust = 90;
    var gunit = 10; //growing rate  



    angleMode(DEGREES);
    background(220);


   
    // second hand(arc)
    // convert the 60 seconds to 360 degree 
    var slength = map(s,0,59,0,359); 

    //the color changes with the second changes 
    fill(5*s,s*2,s*2,2*gunit*(s/4));
    noStroke();
    //draw the second arc, the size will grow with time  
    arc(centerx,centery,gunit*s,gunit*s,0-adjust,slength-adjust);

    //convert the 60 minutes to 360 degree 
    var mlength = map(m,0,59,0,359); 
    //color changes as the second hand
    fill(4*m,m,m,gunit*(m/4));
    noStroke();
    //size also grow with time with a smaller rate 
    arc(centerx,centery,5*m,5*m,0-adjust,mlength-adjust);

    //convert the 24 hours to 360 degrees 
    var hlength = map(h,0,23,0,359); 
    fill(4*h,h/2,h/2,gunit*h/3);
    noStroke();
    //size grow in a even smaller rate than minute hand
    arc(centerx,centery,4*h,4*h,0-adjust,hlength-adjust)



}
  













   


    

sketch

//David Chikowski
//Section C
//dchikows@andrew.cmu.edu
//Project - 06 

function setup() {
    createCanvas(480, 480); 
}

function draw() {
    background(210, 200, 230); // My favorite pink
    
    //calls the current hour, minute, and second
    var H = hour();
    var M = minute();
    var S = second();

    //left circle representing hours 
    fill(255);
    ellipse(85,height/2, (H*4)+50, (H*4)+50);
    
    //middle circle representing minutes 
    fill(3*M,5*M,6*M);
    ellipse(width/2,height/2, (M*4)+50, (M*4)+50);

    //far right circle representing seconds 
    fill(7*S,3*S,5*S);
    ellipse(380,height/2, (S*1)+50, (S*1)+50);

}

I started the project thinking I would utilize the use of lines to base my time off of. I then decided I would switch to circles because I could change the size and how they took up the screen. I really struggled with the create aspect of the project.

Random Selection in Random Image by Jan Robert Leegt in not a complicated project. It’s a website that selects a random image from Flickr and makes a selects an area of the image of random size and location. I doubt this project required a great deal of thought or effort, but nevertheless it messes with your mind in a really interesting way. Even though I know the selections were made randomly, my mind has to find some significance to the selection so it fills in information that’s not there. This can create an eerie effect – for example in this picture my mind is telling me that someone is looking out at me from those two dark windows.

It is also interesting how often the random selection looks less random than if someone was trying to make it look random. For example, in this picture the program happened to select the main subject of the picture.

http://www.randomselectioninrandomimage.com/

André Masson was a French artist who lived from January 4, 1896 to October 28, 1987. He started with cubism then moved to surrealism. It was this stage of his career that he employed automatic drawing. A practice in which he let his pen randomly move across his paper without having a conceived notion of an image he wanted to create. Once he felt he was done Masson would occasionally make revisions or additions to his work. We can not say that his work is completely random because his pen is not evenly distributed along the canvas which would make it random, but it is very distributed at least to the eye. The randomness is all based on how he subconsciously moved his hand to draw. I enjoy Masson’s work because it allows for the viewer to prescribe his or her own image within the abstract, which Masson lays the foundation of.

Automatic Drawing

Masson’s Work