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Blossom Wishes (Time Garden)

AcademicGenerativeHCI

Blossom Wishes — research, parametric symbols, and Time Garden outputs

BEng graduation project, Tongji University (2022) — Excellent Graduation Project.

From field research on Qinghai Tu pan-embroidery through motif analysis (including the time-heavy “pan-embroidered sunflower” as a lucky symbol), to a parametric line: Wishes × Time → lucky symbol — translating point–line–surface embroidery logic into rules, then TouchDesigner outputs: Time Flower (时光花) cards with wish/time metadata, and Time Garden Symbol and Pattern visual studies driven by fractal generation.

Time Garden — monochrome crystalline studies

Time Garden — eight-panel colour grid

Field research — Tu pan-embroidery heritage, craft, Qinghai visits

Insight, ideation, iteration — motif rules, Wishes×Time, Lucky Garden

TouchDesigner — networks, expressions, Time Flower cards

Time Garden — Symbol and Pattern poster series

Concept

Extract how dots, lines, and surfaces inter-grow in pan embroidery, keep the texture of making, and fold personal variables into a symbol generation system. Patterns run through fractals; marks bind to wishes, time spent, and effort — personal lucky symbols and objects between heritage grammar and computation.

Process

  • Field research — heritage (2006 national listing), craft sequence (fold, cut petals, paper ring, outline stitch, expand), visits to inheritors, villages, museums, digital-economy hubs
  • Insight — composition and meaning (symmetry, point–line–surface, circular texture; auspicious, time-cost, self-proof)
  • Ideation — parametric “digital lucky charms”; wish → time → symbol → product paths
  • Iteration — Lucky Garden identity, generative flowers, dense circular studies
  • Implement — TouchDesigner graphs and expressions for Time Flower
  • Time Garden — Symbol / Pattern posters and metadata grids

Tech

TouchDesigner · After Effects