GMU:Keeping Track/assignment one

Katre: Sponge trip

Two colour-filled sponges spend a day travelling around in a box with a tram. The sponges move around and leave a trace that in a closer look remind a map.

Frederic: TRACKS go NETWORK

Overview

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  Network Setup

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  Network Result

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  Tracks

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  More Tracks

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  A Network

carbonslide

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marianne: Nick the easy rider

Popcorn was dyed with food coloring and heated in a pot. The bursting corn inside the pot left spots where it hit the inner surface of the pot.

Effect under the lid

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  Effect at the sides

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Henning: Carbon Copy

A package wrapped in white paper wrapped in carbon copy paper.

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Henning: Brightness

A package with a photoresistor on top connected to an Arduino Duemilanove and a power supply. The value of the photoresistor is something between 0 .. 255 (1 byte). Data is saved to the EEPROM (1 kB). This results in 17 minutes of logging. The output was created with Processing.

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Xinglang: Colored Tracks

A sparkle-shape-paper-ball integrated with colored pencils, which is connected to the lid of the box with a elastic. I took it on a bus, it tracks the movement of bus on all sides inside the box.

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Michaela: Tracking à la Knowles

I prepared a package with paper, metal wires, key rings & markers. I asked a friend to take it with her via car from Jena to Berlin & to send it back to me. The follwowing pics prove the procedure & show the results after I've received the package from the postman.

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Michaela: Recording à la Kasperavicius

My second experiment consists of two white cards, which were shrouded in carbon copy paper & inserted in an envelope. I sent the letter from Jena to Magdeburg & got it back again. I scaned the results & tried to analyze the pixels with processing, as you can see on the pics below.

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Ana: 4-Experiement

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laurafong: tracking my desk and what happens when the lights go down and I start to roll on my chair

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  Escritorio

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  sin luz

liana : n.art.vigation

Moritz: Dunkelkammer 1.0

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  circle shutter

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  another shutter

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  top view

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  inside with photographic paper

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  result

Walter: Recording g-force

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Yuanyuan: My Shopping Track

Jörg: Depending on the help of strangers