Last week i went down the the V&A museum London to have a look at Decode, The digital design sensations exhibition, to try and get a bit of inspiration for future work, final projects etc. Heres a few of the pieces i thought were interesting.
Dandelion, by YOKE. This one is part of the interactive section. It uses IR detection and positioning to blow the seeds off a dandelion and almost like using a hairdryer, blow them around a virtual garden. It is extremely realistic and accurate.
Opto-Isolator, by Golan Levin. A mechanical eye that mirrors the viewers gaze. I like this because of its responsive nature. It opens up an intimacy unlike that of the other pieces.
Dune, by Daan Roosegaarde. This piece responded to you through a field of rods lighting up and insect like clicks as you passed beside it. It did not seem to respond as well as it probably should have though. No idea why.
Flight Patterns, by Aaron Koblin. I liked this because of it was one of the better visualisation pieces. It uses an averaged daily flight plan data to draw what is essentially the outline of the US. It also displays the time and number of flights in the air showing the very calculated nature of air transit and also commenting on mans intervention with the sky.
The visit definitely got me thinking about what different approaches i could take in my final project. A lot of the work was heavily coded and used bespoke programs (usually C++ based). I'm clearly going to have to think about spending some time in processing or Python....ouchh...
Food for thought.
No comments:
Post a Comment