For my Final Project, I created a divination simulation of a three card spread. The spread could function as representative of – Past, Present, and Future – Mind, Body, and Spirit – or Background, Problem, and Advice, as well as other personal interpretations. The cards were drawn by me and were originally inspired by the 22 Major Arcana class of typical tarot decks since they’re the core of the deck. For right now, they could be seen as Oracle Cards which have more room for personal interpretations. Though I intentionally planned to create a full deck, I didn’t have as much time to do so and my laptop was already freaking out from loading the amount of files that are already in. I do plan on adding more into the code just for my free time. My original format was to be on a table with candle lighting but some weirdness with my code caused the cards to be covered so I changed it to more of an open space. The cards are generated randomly when you click within each of their parameters and the textual interpretation will appear as well. The divination descriptions are based from dariusk’s JSON file of tarot interpretations. A star like vortex circulates in the background and a pair of mysterious eyes blink over the cards. Using the p5.sound library, I added the instrumental version of Billie Eilish’s “idontwannabeyouanymore” to run in the background since I think it contributes to the calm and mysterious atmosphere of the coding work.

Link:

//https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/621998

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Dariusk. (n.d.). Dariusk/corpora. Retrieved from https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/blob/master/data/divination/tarot_interpretations.json

Mills, R. (n.d.). The Major Arcana of the Tarot. Retrieved from http://www.byzant.com/mystical/tarot/MajorArcana.aspx

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