This week we had to build a piece on our relationship to energy. The type of energy I focus on the most is food, mainly because I eat everyday and because I have a choice of what to eat. There are three main factors that come into play when I decide what to eat:
- How good does it taste?
- How healthy is it?
- How much does it cost?
There are also other factors, such as the time it takes to make/eat and whether or not it is good for the planet, but I don’t think about these as much, so it didn’t make sense to include them in my piece.
My idea was to build a food triad illustrating how my food “rates” against these three parameters. Each parameter is a slider that moves in one dimension on a scale, and by connecting each point, I end up with a triangle representative of what I am eating. The larger the triangle, the better the food is. I also wanted my piece to have a history, so that I could see my progression over time and whether or not I am making better decisions about what to eat.
I initially wanted to build a physical object I could put up on my wall. It consisted of a marking device and a scroll of paper, which I would unravel gradually as I added more entries. I unfortunately ran out of time coming up with the design so I built a prototype of what the marking device could look like.
I still wanted to build a piece that would display a history, so I built the following sketch in Processing (use the left and right arrows to navigate).
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