Author: Clare

Clare Katyal, Section E

This project was created by Michael Faraday and is called Faraday waves. Faraday, along with photographer Linden Glendhill, used a high-speed camera and an LED ring light to reflect on water and capture the motions of the waves in the water. He attempted to depict the change in the waves when vibrating from different frequencies and found that higher frequencies create more complex patterns. I assume the patterns are generated through some art computer program which translates the wave frequencies (Hertz) into colorful circles on a black background, in order to better show the patterns and the complexities of the waves’ movements. Faraday studied the patterns of waves and their frequencies in the early nineteenth century, and used his knowledge of the vibrations to create a final product which artistically shows a beautiful and detailed graphic of a wave, while also educating the viewers about the ways nature can create beautiful art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcBqk_UujA
Created by Michael Faraday
https://parametricworld.tumblr.com/post/175502683288/fuckyeahfluiddynamics-vibrate-a-pool-of-water

Section E, Clare Katyal

I researched the Nonsense Laboratory created by Allison Parrish in 2021. This project uses a program created by Parrish called Pincelate. This program breaks down English words into their phonetics. The idea of the program is to play with the way words are spelled the same way you play with clay or with notes on an instrument. The program inputs words, translates them into how they sound in the mouth, and then ejects a word for the program’s user to try to say. I admire how versatile the program is because it is able to work with any word, and even words that aren’t really words, like made up sounds or jumbles of letters. The front-end implementation was created by Allison Parrish, while the visuals of the program and instructions were created by Jenny Goldstick and Tim Szetela. Allison Parrish creates many different programs playing on scrambled words, which is interesting because it makes one think about how every word we know is just random letters put together. It is cool to think about how people create the words that have so much meaning to people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo
Created by Allison Parrish
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nonsense-laboratory/

Section E

I tried to play with adding makeup to the face when it was clicked, in order to add more color on the face. I also tried to play with beauty standards, and had the lips and eyebrows get fuller, as this is what many celebrities look like nowadays.

var boxWidth = 6
function setup() {
    createCanvas(640, 480);
    background(220);
    text("p5.js vers 0.9.0 test.", 10, 15);
}

function draw() {
background(247,233,106,[255]);
 fill(75,36,36,[255]); //hair
 if (mouseY < width/2) { //hair grows
     ellipse(width/2,height/2+50,230,400);
 } else {
     ellipse(width/2,height/2+170,260,700);
 }

   
 fill(212,179,135,[255]);
    ellipse(width/2,height/2,180,250); //face
if (mouseIsPressed) //lipstick
    fill(219,58,107,[100]); 
if (mouseIsPressed) {
       ellipse((width/2),(height/2+50),70,30); //lips
} else {
        ellipse((width/2),(height/2+50),40,15);
}
if (mouseIsPressed) //blush
fill(255,204,204,[255]);
    circle((width/2+40),(height/2),30);
    circle((width/2-40),(height/2),30);
fill(0)
strokeWeight(3);
    line((width/2-40),(height/2+50),(width/2+40),(height/2+50)); //mouth
fill(255); //eye whites
    ellipse((width/2-30),(height/2-40),30,15);
    ellipse((width/2+30),(height/2-40),30,15);
fill(75,32,32,[255]);
    if (mouseX > width/2) { //pupils dilate
        boxWidth=12;
    } else {
        boxWidth=6;
    }
    ellipse((width/2-30),(height/2-40),boxWidth,boxWidth); //eye right
    ellipse((width/2+30),(height/2-40),boxWidth, boxWidth); //eye left
    arc((width/2-30),(height/2-60),30,mouseY,PI,radians(360)); //eyebrow right arches
    arc((width/2+30),(height/2-60),30,mouseY,PI,radians(360)); //eyebrow left arches
fill(164,135,106,[255]); //nose
strokeWeight(1);
    triangle((width/2-15),(height/2+10),(width/2+15),(height/2+10),(width/2),(height/2-30));
fill(223,193,163,[255]);
strokeWeight(1);
    rect((width/2-9),(height/2-30),18,35);
fill(0); 
    ellipse((width/2-5),(height/2+5),8,5); //nostrails
    ellipse((width/2+5),(height/2+5),8,5); //nostrails

}