5.1 Optical Illusion View the Code, Click to Interact

Description

In this optical illusion, please stare at the center red dot. And then use your mouse to click on the picture reall quick. After several clicking, you'll notice that you can see several lines in the picutre from top to bottom that connect the arch all the way.

5.2 Ancient Roof Top

Design Process

This optical illusion sketch is developed based on one of the most ancient roof top design in China that you see above. I used if statement to create the pattern chaging that you see while clicking on it. In order to avoid repetitive hard code, I used nested for loop to draw this same pattern again and again on my canvas. At the end, I successfully created this pattern.

Reflection

I developed this based on my childhood life and the missing of the ancient architecture in China. This type of roof top design did not use any other material to stick them altogether, instead, they are just lying on one another to navigate the rain running down the roof. This kind of pattern was really normal when I was really young, but it slowly faded away throughout the development of city tall building. As a result, I want to use this way to remind people how fascinate this design is. And for this optical illusion, I wanted to trigger the feeling of seeing water running down the roof as we saw this in real life.

From my own perspective, the digitalized of this pattern that is normalized in our life is really meaningful. It provides a different feeling and way to express the most normal pattern that we see in our daily life. On the other hand, it seems like the texture get lost and I was having hard time to try to create a more detail pattern. This assignment is really meaningful for me, which gave me a chance to dig back into my childhood memory. It also reminds me that those ancient pattern and culture is slowly faded away due to globalization, and the united of the asthetic value around the industry. I hope we can enbrace the international culture and development, while figuring out a way to give a new-born life for those ancient pattern and culture in this modern world.