Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Arboreal Thinking: Introduction

Arboreal Thinking is an AR (augmented reality) project that reflects the feelings of all those living in an area. Using a web-based interface, residents in a given area can opt in to describe how they are feeling on a given day. This data is then used to procedurally generate trees, which in turn are representative of the residents' moods.

1.0 - What space to use?

For this project we will be using the North Avenue Apartments courtyard as our realm. The area is surrounded by large residential buildings and thus has a lot of foot traffic every day. Another appeal of this area is that people can look out their windows using a smartphone equipped with our AR software and will be able to see the tree(s). College students, especially those attending technical schools, are much more inclined to participate in a digital media endeavor.

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