Hey all. I hope you’ve all had a good first week with our final project.
Since our last meeting, we has really begun to take form. Our plan is to have an enclosed space that we can project the upper half of with a visualizer. So far, we have three codes that we either appropriated from an open forum or made with tutorials, there’s one more that we have in the works that I’m doing research on. It was an interesting experience coming upon these scripts. Even when we were taking something that someone else made, there was still a good amount of work changing it so that it would run on our system. The job then became tailoring it to our needs turned out to be a surprisingly labored process. Our next step is to learn how to insert the arduino commands int0 this code so that a user can take control and change the environment. Tomorrow, our plan is to go scouting for locations on campus to house this installation. We were thinking about looking in the Reichnitz building, as well as the basement floor of the ice house gallery. I seem to remember a past gallery had a projector installation down there, and it seems like an ideal location for that type of thing. It does depend on if the gallery space is being used already or not, so this is all stuff that we’ll find out tomorrow. Also, we wanted to incorporate music into this project and so I’ve compiled a short list of possible songs for each “mode”. I think each program has its own feel and the music should reinforce that.
Again, this project in two weeks is a daunting task, but beyond that, I think the tight time restraint gives the project a certain sense of spontaneity and I think in the end it can really benefit. It all comes down to how we deal with that constraint.
So that’s what we’ve got right now, and what we have in the works.
Thanks guys,
Dave & Pasquale
