Assignment

• Create four timekeeper visual designs. These could be sketches in traditional media; cardboard prototypes; digital 2D or 3D designs. You may use code to generate static designs, but don’t implement anything dynamic in code yet (that’s coming!)
• Look ahead to the techniques and libraries that will be surveyed in the next class. Come ready to try out some code in P5, Arduino, or both. Download libraries for Greensock and/or Func (JS) Ramp and/or Tasker (Arduino)
• Reading
  • Syllabus notes on Timekeeping Devices, Watch Face Design, and Bad Clocks.
  • This overview of Tufte’s data design principles.

Timekeeper Designs

First off, I’d like to apologize for the “sketchiness” of my designs below. I think I had a clear idea in my head but I found it hard to visually represent how I was going to do it!

1. LED rope project This seems like a fun LED mapping project with Arduino. I envision using some addressable LED rope light to show the hours, minutes, and seconds around the circle.

   

2. Nested circles / a color study? Same as the LED rope project, but I think the implementation in p5 or TouchDesigner would be fun to try. Instead of light indicating position around the circle, I’d want the circles to rotate along the rim of each other.

   

3. repurpose my LED circle from last semester https://tian513.com/reflection

1. Astronomy scene Also a digital design exercise, would be fun to try and make an aesthetic-focused project.