GMU:Speculative Atmospheres II/Leandra

IDEA

for my final project i was torn between funny little umbrellas and my fascination for waters’ movement and its reflections that often distort our perception/vision getting to know processing and its great possibilities and offerings brought the idea of colourful shapes and forms to my mind. i wanted to transform natural movements we cant really sense into artificial motions we can see, motions that show the power and strength of water, its different directions and movements. as i wanted to show waters movement through visuals using processing i soon realised how hard this could be for someone who isn’t too deep into programming. someone like me. i couldn’t make things work as i wanted them to so i searched the depths of the internet and found a youtuber who simulates falling rain, i used parts of his code he offers on github and transformed it into my own and FINALLY made it work !!

FIRST SKETCHES

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  a 'snake' whose movements are sensed by hallsensors

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  click to see movement!

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  a gate which "sends" movements to hallsensor

FINAL SKETCHES

i decided to go with a gate, this gate is provided with flaps that are moved by the water the flaps are equipped with magnets and mounted to a hose --> the hose moves around the gate the hallsensors are fixed upon the gate so they won’t move the gate/magnets are moving towards or away from the sensor —> data is send to the arduino

the data is transformed into geometric shapes that float down the canvas ideally projected onto the water surface or a screen near to the water :

click to see the visualisation i had in mind!

PROTOTYPE

i ‚professionally’ glued acrylic glass to an old air hose which i than put on an previously bent gewindestange i know a flat bar would be better, but these where leftovers i still had . i then taped the magnet to the acrylic glass and mounted the hallsensor on top of the bar there are two more hallsensor-acrylicglass-magnet-combos waiting for their flaps

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TESTING/EXPERIMENTING SCENARIOS

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Final Presentation

presentation with voiceover

presentation without voiceover incase you don't want to listen to my lovely voice..

Questions, questions

I see Water, but can i really sense whats going on underneath the surface? Can I see a small creeks movements? How can I make these motions of water visible?

How can I transform the effect of sun and light into movement ?

How do shadows and reflections romanticize and distort our perception/vision?

Inspiration/what I like:

- Tele-present Wind - David Bowen

- Andy Goldsworthy

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- Sound of Rain and wind File:schnee.mp3

- Reflections and shadows

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Ideas/sketches:

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  under my umbrella.

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  sing me a song mister windmill

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  click to see movement

Experimenting

File:schirmersterversuch.mp4