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I like how Maya Lin describes a monument almost as a living thing. Your experience with it is meant to change as you interact with it. It reminded me of a video I saw recently describing how the Ghibli museum in Japan was built and how they didn't build it like a typical museum is built, but rather they started with one room and moved to another and in turn, created a unique series of micro-experiences. It really made me think about how when designing an experience, you have to consider how the user is going to feel not just by the end or beginning, but throughout the experience and how it can be seen from different angles.

 P5.js code I wanted to explore patterns that aren't really repetitive in an obvious pattern way but that we still try to make sense of. Specifically, I remember someone mentioning raindrops on a window as one of the patterns they noticed and it stuck out to me because raindrops on a window isn't really a repetitive sound. The size of the drops, the amount, and the time between drops all vary every time. So why then does it stand out as a pattern? Probably because we try to make sense of the new pattern as the sound evolves and over time it all starts to sound the same. It is consistent in it's inconsistency.  For this project, I decided to play around with the sound of raindrops and specifically creating patterns and then breaking them with new patterns. Each segment is composed of a pattern. For example, short length clips spaced out evenly, but then layered with more short length clips spaced out evenly but at a different start point and some long length clips spaced out

           The pattern that caught my attention this week is nutrition food labels. We standardize the way that information like this is delivered to consumers so that it's easier for them to find the information they're looking for. This reminded me of when I was studying abroad in London and the food labels looked similar and yet different enough that I struggled at first to find the nutrition facts that I might usually check for here. It's the same with when I go into Polish delis in my neighborhood and check the back of the snacks. It's a familiar enough pattern that with a little common sense I can find what I'm looking for but it disrupts the pattern of what I'm used to so I have to take a second to re-orientate myself. Standardization, regulations, and rules are patterns that surround us and help us to share information quickly and efficiently. To represent this in code, I might show food labels and slowly distort them or use the pattern of the label but

       The pattern that I noticed this week is Rubik's cubes. The pattern for this object is each face of the cube has the exact same amount of squares in corresponding colors. Looking at it, it's satisfying when all the colors are on the same side because that's how it's supposed to look. When you complete a Rubik's cube the pattern brings a sense of accomplishment. However, when you're in the process of working on a Rubik's cube, sometimes the necessity for a pattern is frustrating. Sometimes I'll make interesting configurations of the colors which is a satisfaction that both breaks and reinforces human's desire for patterns. In a way, I am rejecting the necessity for all the colors to be the same, but on the other hand, I am finding excitement and satisfaction in creating a new pattern of my own.

Research Process (Why I Made The Decisions I Did):        In class, I proposed the pen (not really a specific one) as my research topic. It was an on-the spot decision because I felt that pens had a lot of research potential. They have gone through several iterations and will continue to be relevant. Since early civilization we've invented some form of writing tool so I thought that pens would have a rich history to delve into and plenty of symbolic significance. However, once I dove into the actual researching aspect of the project, I realized that the pen's long and diverse history was actually detrimental to the creative process. There were too many valid angles to approach this project from and I was becoming overwhelmed. While researching the economic data of pen's sales over the years I encountered an article about Sharpies in particular. I then decided to switch over my research from pen's in general to the Sharpie brand.     With this new goal in mind, I switch

Pattern: Stairs I talked about this a little in class but one of the patterns I thought about in my life is stairs. Stairs are a pattern we place a lot of trust in. We feel a sense of security around patterns in general but particularly ones that are so common and we expect to be the same every time. The nature of this pattern is finite with an even repetition and size variations. Because each segment of the pattern is supposed to be the same and we trust them to be, it's easy for us to be tricked by stairs and not see variations in the pattern coming because we don't even look at the stairs usually to check for ourselves. I would recreate this pattern in code by creating a code that generates stairs, perhaps with random variables to break the usual expectation of the stair pattern. One example of stairs being represented in code that I've found is this .