Title: Love Interactive Version 2.0: ‘What is Love?’
Year: 2010
Artist: Yeohyun Ahn
Media: Interactive Media

Description:
This project begun with my question, ‘What is love?,’ As a typographer, habitually I started writing down several related words reminding me of ‘what love is’ and then, I decided to use the words as my visual materials to construct my interactive typography. Here are my word list for the love: ‘Emotion’, ‘Passion,’ ‘Affection,’ ‘Warmth,’ ‘Pleasure,’ ‘Feeling,’ ‘Compassion,’ ‘Desire,’ ‘Attraction,’ ‘Charity,’ ‘Tender,’ ‘Heart,’ ‘Enthusiasm,’ ‘Intimacy,’ ‘Power,’ ‘Tenderness,’ ‘Fondness,’ ‘Passion,’ ‘Adoration,’ ‘Relation,’ ‘Devotion,’ ‘Share,’ ‘Romance,’ ‘Liking,’ ‘God,’ ‘Engagement,’ ‘Worship,’ On a dark and void space, the words are created based on the random orders, and then, gradually the space is covered by them. They keep being duplicated, and overlapped to construct a visual image with the shape of the ‘♥.’ The shape of the ‘♥.’ represents a visual icon of human heart having feeling. It is formed by the spots with the same color index for the words. It shows that the shape of the ‘♥,’ is evolved from the word’s accumulation visually. Gradually, two different visual elements, the words and the spots, are continuously created, duplicated, overlapped and integrated into one integrated visual image. The spot colors constructing the shape of ‘♥,’ are transformed into the white colors. It is intended ‘what love is’ as a truly pure heart with the white colors and the related words. Audience can interact with the screen. Whenever they touch the screen, the animation is restarted with a new animation based on the random positions and orders of the words and the spots. Every animation is visually not the same, but it is unique. It restarts automatically and make loop every three minutes without any interruption.

Web Version for Love Interactive Version 2.0

Technical References:
Binary Tree Algorithm
Geomerative Library and Caligraft(http://www.caligraft.com,) by Richard Marxer
Processing, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
Font: Arial