#iteration 2

These... things (made in late 2024 using the DnD character creator Hero Forge) were somehow important to the nearly incomprehensible plot of Iteration 2.

Everyone except for the big-headed magenta fella (who iirc was just a worse Lord English) were pretty much just common enemies in their environments. Clunky explanation, but that's the best way to say it without going too much into detail on said incomprehensible plot of Iteration 2.

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Welcome all! It’s that time of year again where I take a brief moment to look at what I have achieved with this blog over the last 12 months and try to elaborate on what I would like to do in the next 12 months. This year I unfortunately had to cut back on the security sleuth due to a lot of different commitments (mainly travel and my side hustle building Apps - good news it’s finally built though 😀).

In an effort to give me more time to work on other stuff I killed off the round up posts which dropped the amount of traffic that comes to this blog by about 50%. While I personally don’t enjoy compiling these posts I want to give this blog every chance possible to continually succeed so I’ll be looking at bringing back these posts in a slick automated form at some stage in 2018.

As for original posts there’s always plenty more to be done. On my wall which I record the pipeline of upcoming posts there’s been a few items sitting there since I came back from Europe (most of them are good, well at least I think so 😉) so they will start appearing more and more as finish them.

I’m not going to focus on dot pointing the subject areas I want to focus on like I have done in previous year end posts chiefly because usually after doing the in depth research on these topics you usually find that there’s not really enough good content to put in a post so I don’t want to get stuck in the mode of doing this and disappointing myself and all of you guys.

The good news for 2018 is that I’ll be shifting back to focus more on this blog next year and I have a couple half finished posts I plan to dust off and finish and rollout soon.

As always, Until next time. 

This is the second iteration of my diagram. At this point in time, I’m still deciding how I’m going to model this project for presentation. On the one hand, I could create a physical model of the park. However interesting it would be, I would lose the camera interactivity that I would have if I created a 3d model. Similarly, this could potentially become damaged in transit to the final presentation. Alternatively, creating a 3d model would be more versatile and less fragile. I could easily zoom in and out of certain aspects of the design, as well as easily make changes to different structures without having to potentially destroy a physical model. This, however, will lose the impact of a physical presentation, and it would be far more difficult to present in the correct time as I would not be able to present the 3d model on the hardware I have; I would instead have to take pictures and present the pictures instead. We’ll see how it goes once I’ve finished designing the internal structures of each object.

This is a rough rendering in photoshop what an overhead view would look like. In red, you can see labels as to what each object is.

In this image, the black lines are the basic shapes of the overall objects. The green represents items that are below the black “top” objects, such as protective netting and extra interactive bars for expanded play. The yellow dots are places where the black structures connects with the ground in some way, be it directly or with a pole/strut as the connection. Beneath each of the forts, there is a network of bars that can be climbed on and around.

This image depicts the “ground zones,” which is to say the different areas the ground is divided into for musical purposes. There are pressure plates spread throughout the cushioned ground that, when stepped on, produce one of several percussion sounds. Zone one produces elongated snare sounds, zone two produces low bass drum sounds, zone three produces cymbal crashes, and zone four produces bongo sounds. Each of these zones and sound types have several iterations of its type of sound that can be produced, each tied to its own set of pressure sensors. There will be speakers spread throughout the structures that produce each area and structure’s sounds.

Iteration #2 

Experiment: To play with the idea of virtual reality. 

This investigates the nature of documentation. How we as society value the symbol (documentation) over the initial. Just as we all do in life, we have lists of things to do, places to go to and people to see. We go on to pursue them. And inevitably post it online, only to gain validation of having experienced the thing/place/person by other people. And then, it is through the photos that the audience gets a sense of those places actually existing. A vicarious experience as they say.  In this iteration, I've added capital and value to my real life by creating a simulation of myself and Clinton in sunset paradise and in France. A parody of the way documentation is. I realised that through this, Facebook plays out the same way. We exhibit to our friends the apparent life we have.

And thus, in many ways, I have experienced the sunsetparadise and France. Through countless of photos.