GPS Path Photos

As previously mentioned after conducting my GPS track the next stage of this project is to document the path by taking photos of the route that was taken. This then leads onto the narrative part of the project. To document my track I chose to take pictures of the path and then lay them onto the path. To then define the route taken slightly better due to the overlap of the images I overlaid the images with an outline of the track. The image that was produced is shown below:To see this documentation more clearly please click on the image. Below is a version of the image without the track line to give a more general view of the area where my track was taken:
The next stage of development of this project is to produce a narrative that maps the path that I made.

Paper model of the Picnic (eventually)

After a rather long period of time, I have finally managed to design, mould and photograph the A3 3D model of the notations that I did as the first project of this module. This post is to display the final result, therefore finally completing that project of the module. I decided to mould the model so that the peaks and troughs of the model defined the areas where the largest and least number of different notations appeared. This was often therefore mainly the areas where people in the picnic were sitting as they incorporate both the static elements(hard/soft, light/dark) and the more dynamic elements(sound/movement). The images that I took of the model were taken of both sides of the paper, allowing the model to be show with and without notations. This therefore means the meaning of the peaks and troughs of the model change depending on which side you are viewing. On the notations side the highest points of the model show the areas with the most different notations, and the lowest points show the areas of least number of notations. Therefore this swaps on the non-notational side. The images I took are shown below:

This can be difficult to read and is much more obvious in physical form, but does provide an interesting representation of the data and places it back into the 3D environment in which the original event occurred. This therefore concludes the Picnic section of this module. The only other possible part to add is that of all the Picnic group's models tied together to make a Picnic mat from all of our perspectives. This however is dependant on the others in my picnic group completing their models.

Flat GPS Track

When I inserted the GPS track I created in the previous post I used a Google Map to place it on to define that path that was taken round the university. However this image is slightly inaccurate due to the angle at which the sattelite images are taken. Therefore this post is to display another image which displays the GPS track as it is without any inaccuracy. This image is as follows:

According to the orientation of my image in relation to the globe, this is an upside down representation of my track. However when put the right way up you get the follwong image. I have also added a path as before to highlight the image I was creating:

My next post will be the documentation of this track and then the narrative which will map the track in some way after that.

GPS Drawing

In the last couple of weeks of IDAT 106 the focus of the work has been creating GPS drawings. We were told to design an image that could be drawn using GPS within the space of the university and then go out and map it using GPS devices. To design my image I printed off a map of the university from above, and tried to find a path using the paths around the uni that would draw an image. Eventually I decided on a design as follows:

This design shows the letters GPS written out with the pen that drew it following. I decided to use this as it was possible to draw using the paths around the university and also it was relevant to the work that we were doing.
I then tracked this using GPS and got the following result:

This is slightly difficult to see as lines, but with the original design overlayed on top it is more easy to see how the result relates to the image.

I am happy with this GPS image and so will keep it to use with my hertzian space diagram and also the images and narrative which will be produced in the next fews weeks.