After filming a domino falling down I went through a process of masking out the domino from a number of video clips. Most of these clips were used for the animation.
Process
Virtual Domino Project
The goal of this project is to explore virtual relationships between physical objects and people’s behaviors. The first step of this project is studying the movements of real objects and visualizing it. This would be a quick experiment of understanding the idea of environment with virtual characteristics.
• What would the potential situation of room as an interface communicate?
• How about using low-tech devices (such as mirrors) to create a virtual space?
A letter about a dream
Dear Phil and Elise,
How is your Halloween so far?
Recently, I often find myself working on my thesis in my dreams when I am asleep.
Normally, the results in the dreams aren’t that helpful to me in real life. However, after drinking some whisky at Becker’s Halloween Party yesterday night I had an amazing vision in my dream.
I was brain storming with the MDP members for a project of creating tangible space that has virtual aspects within it.
I was to make a digital domino system that would be interactive in physical space. I had a plan of applying one of Peter Eisenman’s architectural methodology of using mirrors. For me the mirrors were the tools that would be mimicking “COPY PASTE” duplication function in the digital world.
• By using approximate sensor, the viewer would be able to make the projected domino collapse.
• The projected domino would bounce off mirror displays and then jump into an actual monitor screen.
I am having a feeling that I might regret writing this email to you. I woke up a couple of hours ago and the more my first impression about this dream is fading out the more it seems silly. However, I believe that it might be an interesting starting point for the productive interaction class. I am sure that as I experiment I would come up with some meaningful results. Sorry to steal your precious time in this wonderful weekend. I’ll talk to you in school!
Thank you.
Best,
Austin Lee
http://www.austinslee.com/_thesis/
31OCT09
Language Gestures and Space
People create traces as they communicate. Those traces are not memorable things. Yet, the micro expressions, even the smallest gestures from one’s fingertip are engrained to the atmosphere. No matter how cypher they seem to be, the behaviors during a conversation are full of hidden meanings.
Taxonomy
The goal of this exploration was to understand a bit more about the relationship between gestures and language. I broke down the video and cropped them to create a taxonomy of gestures that matches certain dialogues.
Visualization of Gesture Thumbprints During Conversations
A collection of individual gesture patterns created during the interview. The photos are long exposure (30 sec) snapshots.