Thought & Change

Thought & Change is my first published generative art project, created using p5.js.

It is an exploration in using simple shapes - rounded rectangles - to create abstract and ever-shifting compositions which represent thoughts and how they change over time. Parameters such as the width, height, corner radius, position, and colour change every few seconds, just as thoughts shift and morph as we encounter new experiences and ideas. However, there are always bounds to how much any given thought can change - these limits are determined at conception and never change over the duration of the piece. I have gone through a dramatic shift in my mentality towards work and life over the past couple months and wanted to create something simple but mesmerizing to commemorate that experience.

Unique Features of your Generative Token:

• Colour palette used by the collection of thoughts (ratio of width:height of each thought is used to determine the colour from the palette)
• Opacity of the collection of thoughts
• Lower and upper bounds for the width and height of each thought
• Lower and upper bounds for the position of each thought in the frame

Controls:

• p: Play/Pause the animation. Stops or resumes at the next change (you may need to wait a moment)
• s: Save as a PNG at the current display size.

Values & Reasoning:
In Cantonese culture, certain numbers are associated with specific meanings or considered special due to their pronunciation.

• 36 thoughts in every composition. 36 = 6^2. 6 sounds like the word for "flow" or "smooth"
• 256 iterations. 256 = 2^8. 8 is considered very lucky because it sounds like the word for "wealth" or "prosperity"
• 3 Tez price. While not as special as other numbers, 3 sounds like the word for "life" or "birth". This seemed fitting given that this is my first published piece :)

Thank you in advance to all those joining me on this journey. I'm excited to finally begin participating in this community and share my work with the world.