INSTALLATION ROOM LAYOUT AND EQUIPMENT

Below is the designed look and feel of the installation room in terms of space and layout. The design is not to scale, however all of the equiment listed has been carefully thought through, in terms of behaviour and quality of equipment. The colour of the room also plays a key importance as the room has been fitted with infrared LEDS and a infrared pass filter for the webcam, allowing the camera to focus on the emmitting infared light epecially.

This is only a still, when played on flash the user shall be able to click on the equipment to see why th type of equipment is being used and what it shall be doing.

Final Idea, Few!

First working day of 2008, a fresh monday morning, said to be the busiest day for accountants and divorse lawyers, ouch! However, For myself the day has proved to be rather productive. Mike Blow and I went through several ideas I have developed involving the rorschach test and both agreed it's an interesting subject to stick to, but a digital ink blot test designed by the user could be quite bland and also tricky to develop for such a limited interactive. So, after discussion and a contrast of colourful thoughts I have succesfully developed a concrete idea! The new improved idea is an interaction rorschach installation piece. Ok, the room is slit equally into two halves. One halve is for the viewer, the otherside, for now is an open space where the user is not permitted. The user walks around the room,the user is picked up by a webcam pointing from the ceiling. THe webcam picks up the movment of the user, where by it then follows the users steps (trail) by leaving ink blot images where ever the user steps, creating a inkblot pattern through the users footprints. The other halve of the room then mirrors the exact same pattern the user has printed through their steps, creating a similar looking inkblot. The user can then see the image they have created not knowing that it has been mirrored in the other side. Therefore they have produced there own ink blot!

Rorschach Game

So over the holidays i have been reading about the history of the rorsc test and possible outcomes of how to create a computerised version with online tutorials.(http://library.creativecow.net/articles/thompson_bob/ink_blot_test.php) Previously on my blog my idea was to make the story (see last post) However i am concerned that this idea is not interactive enough. So from looking at the history of Herman rorschach (inventor of test) i read that his ideas were inspired by an early game in the beginning of the 20th cenetury called, Klecksographie, otherwise known as blotto game, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_games) it was also a game where you could design your own ink blots and predict what they were. So, this would be great to try and make an interactive blotto game designed and played digitally. However, i have to work out how to do this???