Lost & Found

Description

The whole thing could be seen as a circulated object:
So here is a circle string, and it is brown;
On top, or being crossed over by the stroke, there are deep purple round beads one by one;
The beads are a bit transparent, in which you could lightly see the brown string through;
On a few of the beatds, there is a white round spot exist, which kind of blend into the beads.
Enjoy!
Sarita

Design Process

I started drawing a width/2, height/2 circle for the brown circular string. After setting the color in brown, I first setted the color of the beads into purple with a lower opacity, adding another value to the color. I then started placeing all the beads on to the line. Forgot I could use the push(); function to seperate the colors and settings from the previous shape, what I did here was to make the color into a variable and had the shape fill color as the variable. It was easy once I had half of the beads placed, I would just have to copy the y value of the other half. Lastly I added a few white dots with lower opacity as mentioned in the description.

Please don't mind how the drawing is not centered, I tried but the index from the original image made it leaningn towards the left. As you can see in the iframe above, the shape clearly looked like a crystal beads bracelet, a common accessories in my culture. After researching the meaning behind this particular color bead, I found out that the crystal is right-brain dominent, often associated with intuition and cognition. People who uses their brains intensively is suitable for wearing such crystals as it helps you to focus and energizes your brain activity. Other effects are calming, just helps with sleeping and memory enhancing which helps focusing and socially it helps artists or students. From the research above, I'm guessing my partner Sarita had gotten this as a gift.

Reflection

I think Sarita did a good job with the description, it was not complicated at all and I guessed the object right away upon receiving the description. My interpretation of the image is in 2D form, I was going to try drawing it 3D, like having the bracelet laid flat on a table and drawing the beads in the back small for a more spacial look but went with 2D because I thought it was easier. I think my code is strong enough to fullfil the description i received and all the details are there, except I don't quite like how the brown turned out when i overlay the purple onto it. One thing that me a little bit concerned was the size of the beads, since there was nothing I could reference back to, I tried to match up with the images I looked up on the internet. The first assignment was fun as we had to blind guess what the other person's object is. Since we only had simple tutorial on p5.js, it made it more fun to google some of the problems that I had and made me want to read more about this web editor. I would want to spend time with my 8 year old niece and have her draw something that she likes with p5.js too.