Comments: open house project
gut reaction:
sounds good. i dont understand the interface for moving or showing the avatars. i like the idea of keeping a virtual tally of people in the room and altering based on that. we need to make sure that we offer enough difference on a person by person basis that it is obvious. it would also be nice to take that tally number and project something (even if its just a color scheme [lame: roygbiv]) based on the total. (or perhaps we can find more variables than just # and direction [less of a binary/additive,subtractive system]: speed is an obvious one, contrast might be another. perhaps we can also add a mic and change factors based on how much noise is in the room; granted this could create a feedback loop with the music, but it also could give us more variable to modulate.)
i think the visual element you describe might be ok; i cant visualize it and im not convinced it melds well with the aural bit. even something like the blocks you did before for perry might work, if they changed speed or size or color depending on variables and the sound also reflected this.
personally, id like to use some nice music that is looped more than generated tones. it would be nice to almost make it a tracker, so the first person adds an ambient noise, the second adds the second layer/track, etc. underworld has a couple of songs that kinda point in the direction of sounds id like to play with.
last thought is if we need to write to a text file. it sounds like we can do it all within max, so i dont think we will gain anything by writing out to the filesystem constantly.
Posted by tripp at December 19, 2003 8:28 AM
Who was it that did that hack using bluetooth so that whenever someone entered the room, some tune associated with them anounced their enterance?
Posted by sfisher at December 20, 2003 8:38 AM