Monday, 2 May 2011

Initial ideas for Assignment 3

Explaining a while loop:
  • One idea for the installation is possibly, having a box which has a handle which the user turns. There is also another control which limits the number of times the handle can be turned around. At the moment it's only a simple initial idea, but one which I think explains it quite simply with the handle being each iteration/repitition of the loop and the control being the limiting factor in how many times the loop repeats itself. 
  • What I could do is have a piece of string or something being wound up as you turn the handle until it gets used up and you can't turn it anymore and the control changes the length of string available.
  • Have it so that nothing else is able to run at the same time that the loop is repeating itself

This is just my initial idea, I didn't want to lose it so I put it up here.


I like the idea of creating an object because it gets far away from the virtual computer subject. Here are a few cool examples of sculptures which I managed to find on youtube which all had some nice qualties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dehXioMIKg0 -  Reuban Margolin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5ZASTWvzM&feature=related - Light sculpture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FRlOhmE0Nw&feature=related - kinetic sculpture

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