This week I decided to combine psychology knowledge and p5! In terms of p5 we had to "write at least one function that takes parameters and one function that has a return value." Unfortunately, the return function didn't quite work in this sketch, so I aim to apply it later in a modified sketch or in a completely different one. Look at the video below and try to figure out the word before looking further!
Video showing the working sketch and a piece of code
If I did everything right, when you look at the video below, you'll be able to figure out the word "Google". Why? Well, there's a gestalt school of psychology that mostly concerned with the way our perception works. Our mind constantly groups things together or separates then to make sense of this world and avoid frustration from perceptual load. Hence, gestalt psychologists identified several laws according to which our perception works without us knowing about this. I applied the law of familiarity which states that "things that form patterns that are familiar or meaningful are likely to be grouped together" (Goldstein, 2011).
If you think about this, in the video there are just 5 colored letters that randomly appear on the screen and change their size. But because they are colored in a specific way, and we see Google logo almost everyday, we still can make sense of what the letters mean. Isn't our mind fascinating? Of course it's also an indicator of Google's dominance in our lives. But whether it's a good or a bad thing you can decide for yourself. If you have some thoughts on that I'd be happy to discuss this in person or on social media!
Summary: I liked how my creativity flow just randomly went into the direction of psychology, instead of doing the art work. And it was really easy to work with functions. However, I have some problems with terminology, such as "embedding a function into an object" or "reorganize groups of variables into objects". These phrases confuse me, so I'll need to figure these ones out. Also, I tried to use the return function to count how many times each letter appeared, but after an hour I decided to seek help.
Also added the count of letters shown in the console for fun
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