Fake Model Cities

Been playing around with this idea - but finally got a decent one with an old Tokyo holiday snap, taken from the Tokyo tower. Almost looks like a little model city! I like the fact that similarly to the trompe l'oeil paintings it tricks the eye, just by adjusting lighting and adding a slight blur etc.

Markers

This is becoming heavy stuff, with all the augmented reality software - Artag, Artoolkit, FlarToolkit, Papervision etc, and then creating markers etc. Thought about making a puzzle of some sort which involves folded markers which when opened up create an optical illusion or something similar, I'm also loking at fake model photography, which fascinates me as another spin off from the whole visual perception project.

Marshal McLuhan seminar

We have a seminar today based around 'The Media is the Message'. I find McLuhans work interesting and studied some of his work for my undergrad.
Although I don't feel I could follow the concepts such as feedforward and New Criticism as indepth as I.A Richards work entails or requests, I do see how it became a precursor to McLuhan's concepts on technological form. I like the idea of the media driving the effects of how we use or utilise it. Noticing these changes can mean an opportunity to observe the detrimental effects on society before they become permeating. I also like to think that as the message or effect is noticed it in turn drives further media to be developed and explored.

'Research'

Went to see 'Coraline' - 3d version last night, which was part entertainment and part research! Great to see how people react to three dimensional films - ducking and moving to avoid objects. Nice little animated story too.

Now, this could be more like it.......

Discovered this fantastic game by Julian Oliver and thought, that using augmented reality + webcam + wireless internet = William Gibson’s book, Spook Country! Creating 3D virtual sculptures that can only be seen while wearing goggles and standing in just the right place, or in my projects case, labryinths and games that can only be interacted with when viewing the markers.

To be able to somehow include a second person could be pretty impressive however, and have them interact and also possibly using more visual cognition to solve the puzzles would fit in with my entire research and development of ideas so far. More experimentation is needed!........

Wordle

Made a wordle map of my essay - PgDip handed in for yesterday (Friday 1st May)