#interactivedrawing

Architecture & Politics

What a difference 400 years makes: 

 London skyline 1616 vs. 2016

Inspired by Claes Jansz Visscher’s classic engraving of London half a century before the Great Fire, Robin Reynolds has updated the view to the present day, recreating Visscher’s perspective as closely as possible, but detailing the London riverside of 2016.

Visscher Redrawn is at London’s Guildhall art gallery until 20 November. The Guardian cities shows us the London skyline 1616 v. 2016 – interactive here 

Team Members: Eli, Song, Uijun

Interactive Drawing Machine is an installation that can draw picture either with automatic move or by user’s control with its joystick.

Concept: Interactive Drawing Machine that user can control the direction and speed when drawing. This provides users whole new experience for participating drawing patterns with its joystick’s unique control experience.

Functionality: This interactive drawing machine draws certain pattern automatically when there is no person in front of it. When there is a person in front of it, it senses the person and stops drawing. From then on, the person can draw things using its joysticks. There are two joysticks that controls two wheels when drawing, each joystick works the same way. Right or left side of the joystick change the wheel’s direction and up or down side of the joystick change the speed of the wheel, up is fast and down is slow.

Video#1: How it works

Video#2: User Testing