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       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 .