Day: November 12, 2020

In class exercise

I wanted to create a language system to describe smells. I did research on the primary odours that people can smell and differentiate easily. I disagreed to some of the descriptive words so I changed them. Just like a clock, the hour hand points the dominant odour and the minute hand points to the minor odour. This is a rough version of the smell clock. There could be more obvious smells and a second hand on the clock. The reason for creating this clock-like system is that odours are often complicated because there are a mix of different smells. This system tells the strong and weak smells. Also, the smell description is clear and accurate. For example, the smell could be ‘really fruity’, ‘minty-fruity’ or ‘fruity-floral’.

Assignment 9

Back alleys are always associated with bad smells. I wanted to visualize what brings that bad smell and how strong the smells are. I highlighted the sources of smell. The dispersed wave shows the intensity of the smell from each source. Some strong smells are garbage bins, carbon dioxide from the vehicle, and the general moist/moldy smell at the alley. It is interesting to find that the smell of vehicle is stronger than chemical smell from the new building in construction, and it diffuses to a long distance