My Project

I didn't present today. I had to leave for a final. So I'll give a overview of what my project idea was and what I was able to achieve. My idea was a picture story that occasionally took user input to steer where the story went. I had a few unformed ideas for input using either sound or touch input. Later I learned about different programs that could better achieve this. I settled on pure data and the fiducials after a demonstration in class.

My subject of the project is a plant. Three fiducial ids determined what kind of plant you were. Later in the story you are given another option: to choose how and what you grow depending on the plant. If you were a vine you grew fruit, if you were a redwood

tree you looked more majestic and so on. This all changed how people reacted in the story. You are given a final decision on how to react to a crisis. With the fiducial you were never aware of the choice you were making just the sound it produced. If you consistently chose the fiducial that makes a mellow sound you made compassionate decisions and vice versa.

My largest is difficulty was getting familiar with the new software. There was plenty of excellent help, but I had trouble deciding how I wanted to use Reactivision and pd. I basically got to the point of being able to trigger the images in pd sequentially and reserving bangs for each of the fidicuials.