My Final Project

For my final project I decided to mainly focus on streaming the Arch-OS data through the GreenScreen as this area was most interesting to me and I wanted to be able to produce a properly working streaming project. For the focus of this I chose to use the wind data, (speed and angle), as this was the most variable data and so would be more appropriate for the streaming. The next step was to come up with a way of dealing with the wind data in an interesting way through animation, that would portray the changes in the data. In particular I wanted to devise a title for the project that would inspire its content, and would also be relevant to me. I am often inspired by music and lyrics and so tried to find a way to connect music I knew with wind. This led me to the song Colours of the Wind, from the Disney film Pocohontas. This phrase the 'Colours of the Wind' has always intrigued me as wind does not have a physical form of its own, similar to much of the areas covered during the hertzian space section, and so I felt it would be good to use my project to investigate this.

(http://www.inthemod.com/bps/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/a%20moment%20of%20serene%20perfection.png)(http://bluelobsterart.com/2009/03/08/the-rgb-color-wheel/)

The first image above is related to the exploration of colour. I like the way in which the circles are used for this. The second is an RGB colour wheel. Being that the angle of the wind can be used in relation to the colour, I felt the best way to do this was to create a link between the wind angle and the colour angle on a colour wheel. For example, if the wind is at an angle of 170 degrees the colour relating to that angle on a colour wheel would be turquoise (between 150 and 180 degrees). Using these ideas I produced a concentic circle idea which had three circles.
I wanted to be able have a history of the previous colours of the wind and so thought concentric circles would be best for this. This also matched with similar designs such as those used on sundials, which meant my project could be seen in some ways as a 'wind-dial'.

(http://leewm.freeshell.org/origami/ringdial.jpg)

This similar design could therefore help relate the image with the environmental elements, helping people to better understand the image.
After producing my concentric circle version of my project, it occurred to me that people may not be able to link directly the wind direction with the colour. I therefore decided to include a direction arrow as part of the image to give a better impression of what the relation ship was.
(http://www.brasscompass.com/sunsphere1.jpg)
This also enhanced the correspondence with the sundial idea, and therefore was advantageous to the project. Below is a screenshot of the final project:
To include the wind speed, my image moves across the screen at the speed of the wind. When it reaches an edge it bounces back to ensure that it stays on screen.
I am quite glad with the outcome of this project as it functions well and incorporates all the ideas that I wanted to include. If I were to develop this project further I would try to improve the aesthetics of the image. Although the image does have to be bold to work effectively on the GreenScreen, more could be done to the image to make it more interesting. In terms of a long term development of this project, it could be quite interesting to further develop the hertzian space link and do a similar project using more technological data.