Aranda / Lasch

Tooling is about what rules exist within this hypothetical “pre-material” state that influence its movement into the realm of the material. Like Bentley’s snowflakes, the source of wonder behind one crystal is not the storm it came from but rather the elusive internal logic that remains resolute and unmoving through all crystals.

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REAS design

Reas is an artist and educator living and working in Los Angeles. His work focuses on defining processes and then translating them into images. He is an associate professor in the department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA.

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Ersilia - Final product

Ersilia - Presentation

This is a link to the Ersilia presentation

Ersilia - Documentation + Final proposal

This project is build on a story named Ersilia, which is a city. I wanted to make a dark interface were the viewer is building up transparent strings. When the strings reach certain amount, they turn into a spider-web. The interaction is controlled by a remote so the user can make the strings and control how many have been drawn. The project is controlled by a Nintendo Wii remote, processing and DarwiinRemote.

DarwiinRemote is a tiny software which reads data from and sends data to the Nintendo Wii Remote. DarwiinRemote allows you to control other applications by using a Wii Remote, in my Ersilia project it controls all the interaction in processing. I decided to build an infrared LED circuit, connect it to the Wii remote and make it fallow the infrared lights. The interface is of a house in Ersilia city, the user is able to draw black and white strings around the house, the string is black on light spaces and white on dark spaces. When the strings reach random amount, the house disappears and the strings turn into an interactive spider-web.

The interface - Ersilia turns into a spiderweb.

Photographs of the final product