In regards to the random data generator, I chose to film short snippets of my journey back home from uni and some videos of my daily life. With those videos, I screenshotted some of my dearest moments and some aesthetically pleasing moments.
With the process of finding a random word, I personally chose to film a short snippet of my daily life in the process as it gives a personal connection to the random word. Additionally, with my background knowledge of programming and codes, i wanted to incorporate the ASCII code table with the screenshotted numbers from the video.
Process/steps of finding a random word
- Identify/capture the time of the screenshotted moment and markdown the numbers of the screenshotted moment in the video
- With those numbers match it with the ASCII code characters and list those letters/character
- Using the unscrambled word generator, type in those letters and find a random word or thing (https://word.tips/)
Step 1: Capture the time of the screenshotted moment
0:30, 10:04, 1:12, 0:29, 1:00, 0:03
Step 2: Match the numbers with the ASCII code character
With the screenshot numbers, i converted it to digit numbers and matched it with the characters on the ASCII table:
30 = RS, 104 = h, 112 = p, 29 = GS, 100 = D, 3 = ETX
FINAL LETTERS = RSHPGSDETX
[ASCII CODE]
ASCII code is an acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and it is a code for representing 128 English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127
Step 3: Unscrambled word generator
With the final letters from the ASCII code table, I used those letters and entered it in the word finder generator on (https://word.tips/)
The first word that the generator listed was depths and that is my random word.
DEPTHS
distance? the dimension of an object? a quality of being deep?