Week 4.1
Tools: P5.js
Copied Project – Never Nowhere
Both background and dot colour vary randomly. Sound occurs with each presenting dot.
Raefael Rozendaal is a digital artist who made lots of projects with p5.js, his works are mainly simple graphic based with the change of shape and colour in which I found interesting as it kind of discussed the relationship between coding and graphics. P5js here as a tool to paint on the digital platform.
The project I selected to copy is called “nevernowhere”, I consider this as something I could start with as it includes skills in sound adding and making random content (placement and colour) on the canvas, this could be a challenge for my learning of this tool.
Enquiry: P5js and Graphic or Communication?
- What is unexpected about this thing you just made?
- What do you understand better about the tool or medium now?
//. When drawing with a pen, the graphics form with my own will, whereas when drawing with P5js, the graphics are followed by certain functions and rules which it is under a lot of control, but for the creator, it is less controllable, it takes more time to understand and utilise the function.
- Did it pose a particular technical challenge?
//. Yes, I was having trouble understand clearly about the functions and orders of the instructions. (Failed attempt on adding sounds in the Copy process.)
- What kind of output or knowledge does this tool or medium favour?
- What relationship foes it have to graphic or communication design?
//. Original, digital website outcome.
//. Throughout the process I felt P5js is almost like an “unexpected pen” for drawing on a digital platform to create shapes, with simple graphics it create most pure/original imaginary and offer most accessible ability so that audience could always looking at the original piece, like the way collector have the NFTs.
The outcome each audience access through their laptop would be the same, the original quality, there is a sense of equalness and challenge in the “transportation” or spreading of graphic design on digital platform. When website code(random combination of letters) became a communication medium, would simple graphics or graphic design be given more power to create impacts and communication?
Unlike other digital outcome, like a image, or video, the quality for the audience to look at will not be the exact same quality when the work is produced, it may effect by device, internet connection, and download and uploads,(might be pixelated). The quality changed through the communication of this digital outcome.
Reference Inspiration:
Marshall McLuhan The Medium is The Massage & In Defence of the Poor Image
EXTENSION – what is the graphics created through P5js an extension of?
- the original communication content.