|  Project 03
Experimental Clock

|  Description

In ancient China, incense was used as a timekeeper. An incense stick burns out indicates that 5 minutes have passed. Nowadays, we will still say "before the incense is burnt", which means "in 5 minutes".

In this project, I reproduced the incense timekeeper. The incense stick slowly burns, and it takes 5 minutes for it to completely burns out. And the color pallet will change according to the time of day.

|  Design Process

I started by brandstorming possible ways to reflect time. I came up with 6 ideas and made the sketch. After discussion in class, I picked the forth idea and moved forward, because "the incense clock" is not so widely-known and it relates to my own cultural heritage.

While coding, I started with the incense burner. I drawed it using the curveVertex() fuction, but the curves turned out to be not smooth enough, so I added a rectangle with rounded corner on the top, to make it looks more refined.

Then I drawed the line to represent the incense. I used the map() function to set the time for it to disappear.

|  Reflection

While discussing about the ideas, I realised that a clock doesn't neccessarily have to reflect time of a day. It can also be just about your personal, internal rhythms. I've seen so many great work revealing their own habits and emotions. That is mind-blowing to me.

|  Credits

This project is created by Yiqing Zhou.