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CONCEPTION AND DESIGN:
This portion of the project was aimed at delving into grapheme-color synesthesia, or the one that leads to associations between graphemes (units of language) and color.
If you were to ask people what color math is, it's likely they've thought about it before and will give you their answer
In a similar sense, this part of the project targets the instinctual color associations people have with the numbers 0-9.
Originally, the idea was to have an interactive color picker on processing which would light up numbers and a picture based on the responses. The program would ask users which color they associate with each number then display a picture with their colors, and add their data to an average for the colors.
This would generate a personalized picture for the person as well as use their responses to contribute to a shared data set. This was supposed to be an interactive art piece that evolves as more people interact with it. However, we struggled with getting the image to have any significance to the numbers and it was also very difficult to imagine an "average color", let alone code.
This idea was shifted to a display focused on data visualization revolving around language.
The revamped version asks first what language you wanted to use, and then asks your color associations with the numbers. These data would light up the number holes in the box and also add to the strips of colors to represent the data. People can see the grid get built as they add their own interpretations as well as see the general trends in people’s perception of the numbers.
The languages to choose from are English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Mongolian.
An improvement could be lighting up the language that you selected, and creating a more pleasant interface for choosing colors.
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