Flow Chart

Jean Chu
Blog address for interaction scenario : http://jeanhochu.blogspot.com/2009/02/interaction-scenario-jean-chu-inside.html
Inside the room, a dim light is shinning on an object on a pedestal. You go closer and perceive the ambiguous light and sound. There is a screen showing on top of the object, projecting a video of an abstract image, which has a moderate and calm movement. The object is made up of a soft and changeable material such as rubber or cloth. It can be easily squeezed or stretched, changing its figure. When you move and change the figure, the video will be showing a corresponding movement.
After you finish the experiencing, you will feel like coming out from a short rest of your mind. You will be remembering the feeling of the soft object and the dreamlike images projected with the object.
If you keep interacting, then the object on the screen will grow its size and get a more complex figure. If you stop interacting, then the screen will shatter as a broken glass, and the sound will tune down.


Scope of Work list
Visual assets : generative figure projected, the object on a table
Sound assets : ambient sounds reminding of the underwater or a metallic eco
physical components : Camera and light to sense the location or movement, speaker
Think of equipment needed to detect the shape or location of the object. (lights (infrared lights or led), infrared light camera or just camcorder). Also I would need to prepare a speaker or a headset for the sound.

Special technologies or programming widgets : Flash, Maxmsp
For this project, I will be using flash mostly for generating the video. For the interacton, I might be using blob detection and further effects, but I need to experiment more with both Flash and Maxmsp before choosing which to use for that.
max msp flash server resource : http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/flashserver/

Libraries
For generating graphics, I will be get some help by the codes already made by others, such as blob detection, perlin noise, Gen Murphy’s “fluid”, other fluid dynamics, etc
motion tracking resource : http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/613/1/Camera-motion-controlled-ball/Page1.html
blob detection library by Andrei Thomas:
http://andreithomaz.com/labs/?p=11