Pressure Project 3

Posted: October 25, 2023 | Author: Natasha Phillips | Filed under: Uncategorized |1 Comment »

Pressure project 3 was a continuation of pressure project 2. We were given an additional 8 hours to iterate on pressure project 2 in preparation for the Chuck Csuri open house at ACCAD.

For pp3 I changed the third scene of my project to transition from the spinning ball into a color-changing “light show”.

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The ball slowly changing to a black screen is not triggered by motion, but is just a series of timers that are triggered when the scene starts. The background and all four elements of the circle are connected to their own timer, with the first triggering at 10 seconds and the next triggering a second after the first, and so on until the ball is gone. To change the color, I connected each Timed Trigger to a Colorizer so that when each went off, the Colorizer would turn on.

The “light show” scene I added after the spinning ball is motion controlled and uses the Video In Watcher and Eyes++ actors to track the users motion. I used a TT Psycho Colors actor, with the brightness output from the Eyes++ actor controlling the bands and the first blob output controlling the width and height of the shape, with both passing through a smoother in an attempt to get the color changes to be more of a gradual change. This works unless there is lots of rapid movement by the user, in which case the colors shift more suddenly, which could negatively impact users with photosensitivity.

The last thing I added in PP3 was sound playing through the whole experience. To do this I placed my sound file (MP3) connected to a projector in a separate scene, then in each of the scenes I wanted to play music in, I placed a listener actor connected to a projector. This approach did not work with a WAV file.

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