Project #3 Experimental Clock

Description

This work is a clock that record the passing of time in my own understanding. I interpret time passing as someone walk forward so I visualize the time as three robot are walking. The robot in green is just like the second hand, so the robot in yellow as minute hand and robot in blue as hour hand. The ruler below is like the scale of a clock.

Design Process

My first thought is that animation play by second is suitable to materialize the time. And I think waking step by step looks like the things robot will do. So my prototype is a robot walking by seconds. How to create a robot and let it walk is my first question. I solve this by create a robot in sketch and draw the two states of alternating legs when it walks. The left leg is in front in the previous second, the right leg in the next second. Adding them into if statement and the robot can walk in this way.
But I also hope it to have useful function of presenting time clearly, so I create 3 robots to represent 3 units of time. Each one walks on a scale so the exact time right now can be distinct. Here I use for function to help me draw the scale quickly.

Reflection

Finding our own way to track time is really an interesting assignment. It helps us to think about time and make a preliminary animation. But I also met a technical question. I know how to draw my robot on p5 and I know how to let robot move, but I do not know how to control the robot in p5 since its made of scattered functions. So I can only draw it in other software and that is my biggest regret.