I like it when I've done something

So ideas are starting to form in my mind. I have continued with the idea of layers and also experimenting with different visual forms and virtual experiences I could incorporate into my trash can design. Ive experimented with lots and lots of balls falling into a space where it had see through walls so you could kind of see the course and the way the balls pass through the space and i was quite intrigued by this. I built an amateur machine to just start off and got some snapshots because the wegame camera wasnt working on the computer. Must get a video next time! I'm thinking of making a bigger version of this, maybe playing with the size and colour and texture of the balls and also to make the form the balls travel through more organic or experiment more with the form of it in 3ds max.

Woke up this morning thinking about..

Semester TWO. Design TWO.
Back to the virtual world this week, Designing something like a virtual rube goldberg machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

Just started experimenting with little contraptions and looking through my office. The whole idea of this project is to look through our "trash"-ed objects or thrown away ideas and make something awesome. Was looking through the first week poster project and got inspired by the layers of paper i stuck on my face. started thinking of working in layers etc. Still on the concepts page.

Alpha Channel Sandwich with Scripting sauce.

The white looked a bit boring, so I created an alpha channel. Creating my own texture on photoshop, I imported it into SL, and attached it with the texture to emphasize a more digital moving texture on the upper level of the office.

Also added in a rezzer that welcomes and gives people notecards as they approach the welcome sign. Screens have also been completed with respective links and journal covers!



Looks quite nice at night I think...



And at sunset...

"A design will never be finished."

Starting to work on seats and big screen on the ground floor. Trying to incorporate the general theme of the building throughout even the seats and screen supports. I've decided to also add a sliding script within the seats and big screen so they can be separated into two separate meeting places, as well as the option of merging both into a communal area. This connection along with the other display screens adds a link to the office, showing how things work together and apart, similar to relationships between housing and different areas of human interaction shown in the housing studies journal.

Popcorn.

The screens are going up!

After creating a facade which leaves a opening for the seaside view, I decided to create display screens for showing the journals that we are meant to display. I worked out that I could probably work in a sliding script into the rods so that the screens are able to be moved along the facade and creates an interesting interactive aspect with the viewers. Again, the actual movement of screens along with the facade show a sense of movement illustrated throughout the structure.

R is also for Roof.

I decided to separate the office into two elements, showing the interaction between new and old, future and historical. Its also a chance for me to exploit the virtual world of second life and add digital elements to my work.

R is for Renovation