I created a futuristic map of Enschede as an asset to be used during loading or at the begining before the user can choose a planet
Map of Enschede
Improving the beamer stand
Poster designs
I made a poster design for each of our 7 planets together with the qr code in it.
The backgrounds are made from images found on https://images.nasa.gov/ . A relatively new gallery where Nasa offers their whole image, audio and video database copyright free. I always feel that this site has more potential that can be explored.
Painting the dome #9
Thom ordered a new chalk spray paint online, so we painted the dome with it, the quality was perfect, the coverage was perfect, no bad spots, no runs, nothing bad.
Planning and planeting
Today I made a plan of attack for tomorrow. To get the machine ready for the demo, it also includes other stuff we still need to do and it may be clearer than just using vivivy. I also revised the planet Kay design according to the store owners feedback and made some small changes to the design document.
How to connect Arduino with Unity – a new way
I will start with the fact that when we were able to connect Arduino and Unity using processing and OSC (and of course with Boris little help) and when I wrote scripts and project under it, then I thought that… I will start again!
…What turned out to be a great idea, because now only the library is needed, and the benefits are that there is no delay. Which means something with the code that Jay-Cee wrote for Arduino was wrong.
So how did I did it? It’s simple, we need Unity, Arduino and Arduino library! which you can download here!
This is a Wiring / Arduino library to tokenize and parse commands received over a serial port.
…What turned out to be a great idea, because now only the library is needed, and the benefits are that there is no delay. Which means something with the code that Jay-Cee wrote for Arduino was wrong.
So how did I did it? It’s simple, we need Unity, Arduino and Arduino library! which you can download here!
This is a Wiring / Arduino library to tokenize and parse commands received over a serial port.
I am glad that it works, I hope it will work also on the days of the exhibition.
Testing of beamer with mirror and making a mount
I brought my mirror from home so that we could extend the distance of the beamer to the dome. That worked well but the next step is to construct a mount for it. We did run into a problem where the beamer stretched the image so that the planet looks like an egg.
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Working on the sounds for the planets
The DAW I’m using to sample all the sounds is Ableton Live. We ended up having the installation be in the key of D minor.
Voice over recording and editing
Here Thom and I are recording the VO for the intro and outro of the installation itself.
Talking about what sounds we will have
The title says it all. I mostly communicated with Thom about what kind of sounds the installation will have and how they would work. In this picture we’re selecting the drums that will be used. The plugin I’m using here is Toontrack’s Superior Drummer.
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