{"id":1226,"date":"2021-09-29T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2021-10-03T19:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T23:04:48","slug":"stickz-blobfamily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/stickz\/09\/29\/stickz-blobfamily\/","title":{"rendered":"stickz – BlobFamily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the first things that came into my mind when we were assigned to create \u201cblobs\u201d for me was \u201cwhat can a blob resemble\u201d. After seeing a couple of blobs from the lecture, especially ones that illustrate a\u00a0 \u201cmelting\u201d kind of effect, I thought of Salvador Dali\u2019s <\/span>La Persistencia de la Memoria<\/span><\/i> and the melting clocks within the painting. I didn\u2019t realize how blobby those clocks actually were, but their form and shape were beautiful and were great representations of real objects turned \u201cblobby\u201d. My initial goal was to replicate the work, but realizing how difficult it was to get the details right, I decided to make a similar interpretation of the painting that alters that keeps the clock motif, and certain defining shapes in the painting, but simplifying a lot of the complicated forms.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen converting to SVG mode in p5.js, I discovered that my code had a bug that existed and took me FOREVER to find. I ended up creating a more abstract version of the initial product, one that is more chaotic and I think diverges more from Salvador Dali\u2019s painting.\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n
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Blob Reading Notes:\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn Laura Hyunjhee Kim\u2019s A Blobafes<\/em>to, I found the following line to be a great definition of how I see blobs:\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nMy initial idea of defining a blob was defining it by what it could not be, which was that it cannot have sharp edges, as it interferes with how we understand language and characterize words based on it\u2019s pronunciation and syntax (I think this still somewhat stands true for me).<\/span>\r\n\r\nI really enjoyed the reading's introduction, where she mentions the term blobosphere and how it \u201ctransforms and transcends expectations from all shapes and forms\u201d. I think this is also a phenomenal definition that I agree with, where the potentiality of blobs as a form seems to be endless, and that's the beauty of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
  One of the first things that came into my mind when we were assigned to create \u201cblobs\u201d for me was \u201cwhat can a blob resemble\u201d. After seeing a couple of blobs from the lecture, especially ones that illustrate a\u00a0 \u201cmelting\u201d kind of effect, I thought of Salvador Dali\u2019s La Persistencia de la Memoria and … Continue reading “stickz – BlobFamily”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}