This week has been incredibly challenging for me, after a lot of trial and error, I have come to realise that I still need to understand the math that goes into conditionals and there are so many functions which I still can not seem to grasp. The outcomes I have generated this week are fairly average and yet they took so much effort to generate! I’m wondering when I would reach a point where I could start getting creative with programmes rather than being stuck at the bare minimums.

When it comes to choices, I opted to go with something rather simple.

When presented with a ‘Do Not Press’ button, it is human tendency to press it anyway and the feedback of doing so is almost instantaneous, always. I, on the other hand, chose to make a button which does not give a feedback which is instantaneous but rather gradual. It is an experiment to see if the human mind still remains curious of the ‘Do Not Press’ button if the results take time

the code is fairly simple but uses the modulo function to regulate the output per number of clicks

A shrink variable was also defined to make the button gradually ‘shy away’.

It would be interesting to see who would keep pressing the button to eventually see what would happen in the end. While the choice is simple, to keep going might be a difficult choice to make.

This piece of work is intended to test patience.

Screen Recording 2022-09-23 at 2.36.59 AM.mov

If you are patient enough to keep clicking, you would ultimately see that the button has disappeared but it does not end there. If you try to push your luck further, the button will ultimately come back to its original size when you keep clicking.

I’m interested to see what feedback I would get for this experiment. I expect a lot of annoyance!