Ersilia
“Ersilia is a city of changing location, where in order to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or grey or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, trade, authority, or agency. When the strings become so numerous that one can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave; the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. The inhabitants then rebuild Ersilia elsewhere, weaving a similar pattern of strings which they try to make more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, a visitor will come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities without the walls, which do not last; without the bones of the dead, which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.”
I want to make a black interface were the viewers are building up white (transparent) strings and when there is a certain amount of them, they turn into spiderwebs. The interaction will be controlled by video sensing, the user can make the strings.
How could I make the user build up the strings?
Here is an idea of video sensor input source:
“Ersilia is a city of changing location, where in order to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or grey or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, trade, authority, or agency. When the strings become so numerous that one can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave; the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. The inhabitants then rebuild Ersilia elsewhere, weaving a similar pattern of strings which they try to make more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, a visitor will come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities without the walls, which do not last; without the bones of the dead, which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.”
Italo Calvino, Le Citta Invisabili, Turin 1972.
I want to make a black interface were the viewers are building up white (transparent) strings and when there is a certain amount of them, they turn into spiderwebs. The interaction will be controlled by video sensing, the user can make the strings.
How could I make the user build up the strings?
Here is an idea of video sensor input source:
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