Anti-Surveillance Tool

Move and press the mouse. Press the keyboard.

Description

Hieroglyph exsited in different cultures. In ancient China, the early hieroglyph is called Oracle engraved on animal bones or tortoise shells. The formation of characters initially came from the images of things in human life. It evoluted from ancient pictograms and drawings that originated in the primitive society, and gradually turned to abstractness and symbolization. When I look at the simiplied Chinese today, I found it interesting that they still preserve some shape imitation features of hieroglyphs. So I want to create a tool that leads people to explore the hidden Chinese characters behind the images and the relationship between the texts and images.

Receipient: (1) People who are interested in the formation of characters and hieroglyphics (2) Designers who get inspired from the surroundings

Visual Strategy: I drew the images first. Then I used the function “mouseIspressed” and “keyIspressed” to hide the Chinese characters by not revealing both the matched image and text at the same time. And by moving the mouse, the images of the mountain and the river can be removed, showing the characters behind.

view the p5js sketch

Reflection

For this assignment, I explored more ways of mouse functions in p5js and applied them to my sketch. And it was also my first time to upload images and see how they could help me with the design. I tried to use new fonts but couldn’t upload the font successfully into the files.

I think the application of hieroglyph gives me a sense of the design process on how designers pay attention to the surrounding environment and get inspired from things related to daily lives.