{Rabbit_Hole}

{currently works with Chrome and Firefox browser}

For the composition assignment the final of Coding for Emotional Impact class, I want to create something with multiple layers and is self-explained. Inspired by the description of computer vision is a rabbit hole from Andy(because I’m learning Three.js by myself recently), I wanted to make a game about “Rabbit Hole”, and my biggest assumption is that everyone is sort of down the rabbit hole.

ps. It’s not really a fun game to play. Still confusing should it be fun to play or just an emotion-building nowhere…

     

Literary Nonsense- has no system of logic, although it may imply the existence of an inscrutable one, just beyond our grasp.

And below are three snapshots of what I’ve built so far. I made my own models in Maya and drew textures in Photoshop. Can’t view online because of some web-related issue I can’t solve to load the music(SOLVED_by hard coding the url of music file path). But have no ideas how to do the transition from scene to scene…

SCENE_ZERO: http://www.rabbithole.link/

SCENE_ONE: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_D.html

SCENCE_TWO: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_G.html

SCENE_THREE: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_S.html

SCENE_FOUR: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_M.html

SCENE_FIVE: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_T.html

SCENE_SIX: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_F.html

SCENE_SEVEN: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_V.html

SCENE_EIGHT: http://www.rabbithole.link/index_E.html

( Three.js + web stuff ) == super deep rabbit hole.

Roofwing

A flying + walking, surreal experience design for rooftop. Work done with amazing John.

It’s all start from an assignment in the class Spatial Media, with specific requirement as below:

+ be site specific (i.e. be designed for an actual location)
+ be designed for use by more than one person
+ involve a horizontal surface

START FROM SPACE

Because we wanted the experience to be strongly connected with space, we developed the idea starting from space. We chose rooftop because its exciting yet rusted characters, and we thought it has the potential to be a relaxing playground for citizens, especially for cities with limited space.

CONCEPT

+ Utilize the height and windy characters directly from space
+ Cooperate with your teammates to maximize and exaggerate the excitement

SWINGS PRODUCTION(making miniature!)

+ woods
+ necklace chains & rings
+ thin hemp rope
+ webcam
+ monitor
+ white board

TECHNIQUES

+ Openframeworks
+ videoGrabber
+ videoPlayer
+ color detection
+ image sequences
+ soundPlayer

Swing range test

Infinite Loop
This is one of the amazing beautiful mistake with the infinite loop between monitor showing what camera capturing and camera capturing monitor.

HOW IT WORKS

+ Team A & Team B
+ swing people*5 need to cooperate to swing as high as they can to shoot out the strong thunder, or either weak thunder or NO thunder will be shoot out(different thunder sound effects).
+ people in the center can block the thunders by stepping on them(scoring sound effect + spark sequence), so two team have to try to rope in the people in the center
+ once thunders reach the other side, strong thunder gets 2 scores, weak thunder gets 1 score.
+ SWING OR DIE.

Roofwing_{progress & media content}

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mushroom. intervention. systemic.

First thought after reading “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species”, “Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom”, and the interview with Oliver during weekend is that, I kind of found the purpose of a project, what can I do about it and what’s the possible future of a project. As an artist, I can start from

"love"

, start from developing deeper and knowing thoroughly about what I love, and then gradually, with the creative interventions, I can bridge worlds between public and the field where my passion lies.  Quoted from Anna “… my stories tell how advocacy for mushrooms can lead to projects for democratic science and publicly inclusive wellbeing.“, I’m inspired to search what I’m crazy about and immerse myself in it. Before that, I don’t really understand the goal of this class now I’ve found it. It’s not about just trying to use fungi in your projects and trying to involve Led, motor, Arduino, but trying to intervene this mysterious field with your point of view. Then as a messenger, you expose the rarely-knew info and make it connect to the public.

Thus, simplifying and more comprehensive project update:

Idea

• One line description: See the world through fungus.
• I want to build up connections between fungus and people, and further take fungus as a bridge to connect people with the world beyond fungus. Thus being aware of what fungus is, what fungus does, how does it affect the planet.
• The idea is playing with the notions from “Mycelium Running” by Paul Stamets,
  • “I see the mycelium as the Earth’s natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.”
• One particular thing I’d love to highlight is fungus’s decomposing ability. It is the key of the nutrient cycling system, and also degrade or remove toxins from the environment.
• So yes, it’s a project with eco-friendly aspect and hope people will be more aware of the environmental issue.

Content

• Upon a box of soil, are 5~8 mycelium lights hanging and changing between bright and dim gradually.
• In the background screen, playing the collage of the mycelium activities(growing, moving, etc) video footages, representing fungus’s daily life.
• Once  someone comes near(detected by ultrasonic sensor), the mycelium lights speed up changing, and forming a pattern of spreading. Also, the screen’s content turns to show the interactions between fungus and humankind, including foraging, pollution, infection, bio-chemical etc.
• If time permits, the soil will be pushed by the solenoids beneath, amplifying fungus’s awareness of us.

Materials

• Mycelium Lights * 5~8
  • wrap mycelium(post-blender) around balloons, and poke the balloons once mycelium eats all the materials
• Wood sticks * 4
• Wires hiding in flax ropes
• Wood base
  • soil in wood box
  • ultrasonic sensor attached
  • solenoid beneath(if time permits)

Also about the case study, one thing interests me that most of the projects from reading and from Oliver, all have certain degree of public influence, and create new behavior. I wonder how many artist originally had this kind of visions and how many artist eventually made it and change the real world? Or are they actually all make it through but just in different level? And how can we keep our vision and passion vivid and lively?

{Roofwing}_storyboards and 3D view

Spatial Media project with John. A multiple players game to feel the wing, feel the swing, and feel the height.

Storyboards*3

3D perspective view

software: Maya

Next, should be a miniature or simple version set in the lounge of ITP.