Project #3 Experimental Clock
Description
(Still trouble shooting some features) In this project, I focus on the idea of "recording time" to "capturing time". Every second, there will be a new ball dropping into the space. The orange hour, green minute, and red second arcs act as a container to hold onto the time balls. As time passes on, the ball either drops out of the arcs or reamain in the arc baskets. By doing this, audience can see the relationships between every moment in time and seeing it in a wider context as a day, seeing time piles up and passes on.
Design Process
I went thorugh many different versions of clock to come up with this last one; however, the idea of piling up time and releasing it was always there. I had a hard time trying to make interactions between the balls and especially with the arcs. I want the arcs to catch the balls as they fall down, but they kept falling right through. I was only able to make them bounce back at the bottom of the box. I made a Class for the balls, so there can be multiples of them, but I also don't know how to make them bounce off each other.
Reflection
I've always code in a way of trying to find how other people code for a similiar effect online and try to use the same logic to code mine; however, this time the code needs to be coherent all the way through, so I can't just make this up here and there. This really made me realize how bad of a coder I am haha. I can't bounce around different logic and put them all in the same code, but also I realized how hard it is to think of every detail of the code and still make them follow the same logic. I really need to practice on this.
Credits
This project was created by watching "7.3: Arrays of Objects - p5.js Tutorial" and by The Coding Train.