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4. The Clock

Clock Assignment – Paloma

 

My Project 

My Code

The inspiration for my project is based on Astrology. In astrology, there is something called your big three, sun, rising, and moon sign. Your rising sign is based on the time you were born. Your potential rising sign changes every 2 hours. So I chose to demonstrate the passing of a day based on which sign is in the sky at a given time in the day.

I got my inspiration from this photo. 

I originally was going to create a class for each installation and hand draw each one. After speaking with Professor, about my idea, I was given the suggestion that instead, it’ll be easier to simply use transparent png of each constellation and then adjust the position of those images. The hardest part of this assignment was loading the images and positioning them.

In the future: I would fix the labeling of the zodiac signs to make them more legible. I would also make my implementation last the full two hours. 

Update: Since I presented this project, I removed the original text and used p5js text method to make it legible. Whenever I edit the  HTML to change the dimension to 850×800 it doesn’t stay.