Week 10

External Data – Tables & Blobs

Intro

Your parametric identity projects will eventually collect their parameters interactively, using a screen-based UI. In the meantime, you’ll need a way to define different sets of values while you design and develop the identity system itself. This week we’ll learn about the use of ‘configuration files’ – how to write them, load them, and parse them.

Sync Up

• Review your 3 scenarios for your Project 3 identities
• Data Preparation
  • Sample Google Sheet
  • Exported CSV file
• Code Examples
  • await csvData to load tabular data
  • await jsonData to load ‘blob’ data
• References
  • Marking functions as async is required if you are going to use await within them
  • The old-school p5 approach is to define a preload function in your code and call loadJSON or loadTable from there.
    • Using preload & loadTable
    • The p5 Table class
    • The p5 TableRow class

Activities

Project 3: Identity by Numbers

• Submit your process work by Tuesday 11/9 at 11:59pm
• Complete the week 2 assignment by 9am on 11/12