ASTROCAKE
For lab 2 we created an openFrameworks program for which the input is planetary data and the output is a recipe for cake. Using astrological properties of the position of planets, specific ingredients are chosen to be put on variable types of cake. We had chosen to make the season decide what kind of cake or pastry should be made. In the spring one has to make a normal cake, in de summer a cheesecake, in the fall apple pastries and in the winter cream pie. These form the basis on which the other ingredients are being put.
Screenshot of the AstroCake application
For each planet there are a few points in the zodiac where they have an increased astrological influence. When a planet is on a strong position, one has to add the ingredient that belongs to this planet. Each planet has its own ingredient, which has been chosen based on the astrological properties of each planet.
Mercury has cinnamon
Venus has chocolate
Mars has chili
Jupiter has orange
Saturn has strawberries
Uranus has ginger
Neptune has coconut.
Moon has rum
Sun has vanilla sugar
For example, for today, Friday April the 13th, the Sun and Saturn are in a heightened state together with Neptune, and therefor we made a cake with strawberries, vanilla sugar and coconut.
Delicious Saturn/Neptune cake
Although one can make a cake recipe based on this information by hand when one has acces to an astrological chart, we made an application with openFrameworks which retrieves the positions of the planets for a chosen date, and from this generates the ingredients one has to put into a cake, to easily get the perfect cake for the day according to the current positions of the planets.
The source code of AstroCake can be downloaded here: