Technological Art and Design


I knew about the enigma machine created by Alan Turing who was a computer scientist, a mathematician, and a philosopher. Although I have not watched the famous film called ‘The Imitation Game’ inspired by Turing, the popularity of the film triggered me to search about his influence and the tragic life story behind the achievements that he has made for the world and for his country. Although the Enigma machines’ cryptanalysis became a successful contributor to hiding concealed messages from the enemy during World War II, it also became a pivotal moment in history that affected the advancement of technology and artificial intelligence in the future. Although used as a type of weapon in history, this contains futuristic advancements even now that could possibly enforce computers to imitate the complexity of the human mind.

Project-01-Face

sketch

function setup() {
    resizeCanvas(500, 400);
    }

function draw() {

    background(255,192,203); //pink background
    fill(252,175,135); //skin color
    noStroke();
    ellipse(250,200,110,130); //head

    fill(256);
    ellipse(230,200,25,25);
    ellipse(270,200,25,25); //eyes white

    fill(48,32,19);
    ellipse(235,200,15,20);
    ellipse(275,200,15,20); //brown pupils

    fill(0); //eyelashes
    rect(235,190,7,2,5,5); //left eyes
    rect(240,195,5,2,5,5);
    rect(240,200,6,2,5,5);
    rect(275,190,7,2,5,5); //right eyes
    rect(280,195,5,2,5,5);
    rect(280,200,6,2,5,5);


    fill(0);
    arc(250,180,100,90,PI,TWO_PI); // top bangs
    rect(200,175,10,70,10,10); //left side long bang
    rect(290,175,10,70,10,10); //right side long bang
    rect(280,175,10,15,90,30); //middle bangs
    rect(270,175,10,15,90,30);
    rect(260,175,10,15,90,30);
    rect(250,175,10,15,90,30);
    rect(240,175,10,15,90,30);
    rect(230,175,10,15,90,30);
    rect(220,175,10,15,90,30);
    rect(210,175,10,15,90,30);

    fill(0);
    ellipse(250,125,50,50); //top bun

    fill(256); //coffee cup
    ellipse(250,250,150,45) //coffee top lid  
    ellipse(325,310,30,100) //handle outside
    fill(255,192,203);
    ellipse(325,310,10,85) //handle inside
    fill(256);
    rect(175,250,150,130,0,5); //cup body

    fill(40,26,13); //brown
    ellipse(250,250,140,35); //coffee liquid

}

For my self-portrait I decided to picture my head with an even bigger mug of coffee since I felt that represents me and my lifestyle. I used a lot of ellipses and arc for rounded objects (head, eyes, top of the mug, handle of the mug, etc) and rectangles (bangs from my hair, eyelashes, body of the mug). My process began with a lot of guess and check but once I figured out the coordinates I wanted it was easy to finish with more speed.