Johnny's Session Rethink

Today we had a run through of our ideas with Johnny. However throughout everyone's presentations it was made clear that for this project we didn't have to actually have to create an interactive piece but rather the idea of it and demonstrate how it could work.

With this new info i wanted to completely restart this idea as i felt creating this video for the twilight section was too restrictive and wouldn't allow me to make interactive for the public. However coming up with interactive piece is much more exciting and allows me to think out of the box much more.

Johnny showed us this website called Decode which was very inspiration into ways i could use interactive media to allow the audience to participate with the design.

Decode Exhibition

A surface covered with black sand turns into a pool full of life when people grab and remove a handful of sand away. In this micro-world, virtual creatures are born, live and perish.They recognize their spatial boundaries and obstacles of living and respond to peoples’ touch in various ways.
A real-time computer vision engine has been developed to interpret the physical status of diverse materials of the installation. The program populates creatures with various characteristics and controls their behaviors in real-time. A swarm intelligence has been implemented to simulate the flocking behaviors of the creatures and their life-like motions.
The Oasis is not a device invented for people to ‘use’. It’s a playful space where people feel nature, find life forms, interact with and create virtual worlds. It elicits peoples’ basic instincts to touch natural materials.