ROTA FORTUNAE (Wheel of Fortune)

// This project was built using the Processing programming language.

/*The Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna, who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel - some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls. Fortune appears on all paintings as a woman, sometimes blindfolded, "puppeteering" a wheel.
[en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Rota_Fortunae]

"...Are you trying to stay the force of her turning wheel? Ah! dull-witted mortal, if Fortune begin to stay still, she is no longer Fortune."
~ Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy

PROJECT:
The ROTA FORTUNAE stands as a larger-than-life, rear screen projected, spinning Wheel of Fortune. The wheel consists of 3 images joined together to form an emergent rotating shape. A phsycial interface, of arcade game control console height and size, presents a would-be participant with 5 controls (3 knobs and 2 buttons). 2 knobs control the width and height of the 3 images, 1 knob controls the rotation of the wheel, 1 button randomly selects the images used to populate the wheel, and 1 button saves and sends a screen shot of the wheel's "reading" to a database for later use (eg, printing on the spot or emailing to the participant).

CURRENT ITERATION:
On the initial screen, a mousePress randomly selects 3 images, from an array of 238, which are joined together to form an emergent rotating shape. MouseX and mouseY control the size of each image while keyPressed PLUS mouseX control the rotation rate. A left-sided column of 3 image frames display the randomly selected images used in the rotating shape.
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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• processing
• divination