Project 6 – Abstract Clock – [OLD FALL 2020] 15-104 • Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice

I began this project in a very different place than where I ended up – after exploring many different ways of how I could potentially represent the CMU fence as a clock, I ditched that idea and went with creating a binary clock.

When I was a kid, my dad had a clock like this. Although I could never read it, it looked fancy and important to me and made me feel like maybe one day I would deserve to know what it all meant. It wasn’t until this project that I found out how to read it!

My dad told me that the clock always looked like a cityscape to him. I agreed, so naturally that is what I chose to code for this project.

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// Assignment 06 - PROJECT – ABSTRACT CLOCK
// Name: Jubbies Steinweh-Adler
// Email: jsteinwe@andrew.cmu.edu
// Class: Section D


var lightOn;
var lightOff;
var column = [2, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4];
var canvasMargin = 100;
var innerMargins = 10;

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

  //WINDOW COLORS
  lightOn = color(180, 180, 0);
  lightOff = color(70, 70, 40);
}

function draw() {
  background(27, 27, 128); //Blue


  var timeString = whatTime(); // run whatTime function once and rename output 
  var cLength = column.length;
  rWidth = (width - 2 * canvasMargin) / cLength;


  //- BACKGROUND- 
      //moon 
      fill(248, 243, 200);
      circle(width * (2 / 3), height * (1 / 3), 250);

      //buildings
      //back
      fill(5);
      rect(0, height / 2, width, height);
      rect(60, height / 2 - 40, 100, 200);
      rect(width - 100, height / 2 - 40, 80, 200);
      //front
      fill(20);
      rect(105, 130, 145, 235, 0, 80, 0);
      rect(262, 173, 127, 190);
      fill(50);
      rect(202, 220, 132, 146);
      rect(248, 173, 44, 61);
      rect(264, 148, 12, 28);

      //reflected buildings
      push();
      translate(0, 200);
      fill(20);
      rect(105, 165, 145, 235);
      rect(262, 165, 127, 190);
      fill(50);
      rect(202, 165, 132, 146);
      pop();

  //- TIME FORMATTING -
      //CONVERT TIME STRING TO BINARY STRING
      for (var i = 0; i < cLength; i++) { //run 6 times
        var rx = canvasMargin + rWidth * (i + 0.5);
        var binary = floor(timeString[i]).toString(2); //converts time to binary string

        //test proper binary conversion
        print("a = " + binary.toString());

        //REVERSING BINARY DATA 
        //positional data for drawing depends on reversal
        binary = binary.split("");
        binary = reverse(binary);
        binary = binary.join("");

        //test proper binary reversal
        print("b = " + binary.toString());


    //-DRAWING CLOCK ELEMENTS -
    for (var p = 0; p < column[i]; p++) {
      var ry = (height - 50) - ((rWidth * p) + canvasMargin);
      var reflectY = height - canvasMargin + (p * rWidth);
      var rectWidth = rWidth - (1.8 * innerMargins);

      //FILL WINDOW WITH CORRECT COLOR 
      //if character in pth position is 1, turn on
      if (binary.charAt(p) === '1') {
        fill(lightOn);
        //if not, turn off
      } else {
        fill(lightOff);
      }

      //WINDOW SHAPE
      rect(rx, ry, rectWidth / 2, rectWidth * (3 / 4));

      // - FOREGROUND - 
      //Water reflection

      rect(rx, reflectY, rectWidth / 2, rectWidth * (3 / 4));
      fill(40, 40, 120, 30);
      noStroke();
      rect(0, height - 115, width, height);
    }
  }

}

function whatTime() {
  //creates live time string with no spaces

  var h = hour();
  if (h > 9) { // if hour value greater than 9, return as is
    hrs = h.toString();
  } else { //if less than 9, add zero as spacer digit
    hrs = "0" + h.toString();
  }

  var m = minute();
  if (m > 9) {
    mins = m.toString();
  } else {
    mins = "0" + m.toString();
  }

  var s = second();
  if (s > 9) {
    secs = s.toString();
  } else {
    secs = "0" + s.toString();
  }


  //FUNCTION OUTPUT - (hhmmss)
  return hrs + mins + secs;

}

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