Artist: Sabrina Long
This past Friday (September 13th 2019) was the Mid-Autumn Festival, a harvest festival celebrated by hundreds of millions of people around the world each year. The festival is a time for friends and family to come together, eat food, and share in each other's company.
Growing up, Mid-Autumn was always an exciting time of year because it meant special trips to the Chinese grocery store and many delicious varieties of mooncakes. However, since coming to college, I have celebrated the Mid-Autumn festival with less and less intensity each year. This year, it slipped my mind completely. I woke up the following morning thinking about it, only to realize it had just passed.
This generative art piece is a reflection on my emotions that morning, as I realized that many of the Chinese traditions my family once practiced had been eroded over the years as we became more Americanized. Through images on the Becton Cafe LED display, I hope to invoke in the viewer the same feelings of thoughtfulness I felt that day.
Video: https://youtu.be/bkPSsAsL59k
| Becton Center Entrance | Small LED Panel Closeup |
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The following instructions explain how to run a Processing sketch (such as this project) on boot. The instructions assume the reader has the ability to SSH into a Raspberry Pi 3b+.
- Clone this repo into your chosen location on the Raspberry Pi
- Edit the second line of
myScript.hto include the path to your new repository instead of/home/pi/path_to_processing_sketch_folder - Access your autostart file by running
sudo vim /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart - Add the line
@bash /home/pi/myScript.shto this file - Reboot your Raspberry Pi with
sudo reboot