Before I’m starting to address the actual work topic to the work I want to remind myself that things aren’t going as expected in this module. I was counting on producing roughly 5 posts a week but instead some posts contains progress and thoughts from the day before, as time is being taken up more by programing and less by experiencing. Writing how I feel about coding isn’t the main task rather reflection on the interactive experience of the module. Using and planning a weekly agenda is probably the way to solve this issue, which my teammate and I haven’t done. So this is a important note to my future self.
Some progress in experience were made, I tried out the precision and accuracy of the sketch. Amongst countless of trials and errors, these two videos were the ones with the best outcome.
As can be seen in both videos: one hand/wrist controls the color and the other one controls the size of the circle. This was an attempt to define the precision and accuracy of the material. Unfortunately the results are disappointing. Not much precision is achieved even though my movements are pretty calm and basic. Same test was attempted by placing the circle on different points and different joints were used to control the variables but the same result ensued.
With that in mind we can proceed in a different manner. As the object is continuously moving sometimes even randomly, can we incorporate it into the sketch so it acts as if it was natural? Maybe instead of circle we can have a balloon that floats upwards? The imprecise nature of the sketch might blend in with the random jittery movement of a balloon and should be less visible as balloons are normally bouncy and moving with the wind in real life.
As far as the input movement maybe we can go back and analyze which of the parts of the upper body (we are limiting ourselves to the upper body) we can use to control the object. What’s more interesting for me is also to use parts we usually don’t think about using when we want to control things. Elbows and shoulders come to mind.
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