Story
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Timing |
I was at the Grace Hopper Conference in 2016 when I was encouraged to make a chrome extension. The Gilmore Girls revival was also about to be released a few weeks later
Technology | My friends had created some really cool applications and animations using p5.js. I decided to go through the documentation and find a visualization that could go in the background of my application.
APIs | I really liked Chrome Extensions that were not static, AKA upon a page refresh or new tab there would be some new dynamic content. To have something generated like that, I decided to use the Giphy API (which, by the way, has fabulous documentation) to pull any Gilmore Girl related gif and display it over the p5 animation
Additional | The application looked kind of plain and the gifs were constantly getting resized so in the time frame of 8 hours (1 night during GHC), I decided to add a list of Rory Gilmore books that I pulled from the internet. Using JavaScript, the code picks a book at random to display under the gif
Goals | I wanted to create a project that could allow me to learn a new technology (chrome extensions) and leverage some of the new JS libraries. I got to do that but I didn't spend a lot of time making it look nice. If I were to redo this, I would take more design thinking and think about layout more. Maybe tiling could be a fun new addition
