The below video presents the start of a low-fidelity prototype development. It aims to highlight the slight issue that we have between the 15 minute intervals in which the data is received. In detail, our weather data is updated every fifteen minutes. For example, there will not be a lot Read more…
The lighthouse structure has moved onto the next phase. If you remember, our aim here is to develop a structure using rotating triangular toblerone forms to present the weather data on the island. Each of the three faces of the toblerone will show rain, sun and wind… there will potentially Read more…
Some very interesting effects are starting to emerge as we continue to experiment with the etching and light. Take a look at the below… and how the light is allowing us to highlight the flora & fauna. How it might enable us to create the impression of flora & fauna Read more…
Exploring ways to etch and present the flora & fauna data, we started to think about ordinance survey contours and how they present relief areas in the landscape. We are now thinking could we use contours and light intensity to represent quantity of flora & fauna on island?
The challenge is how to present the vast quantities of flora & fauna data effectively on the LED map. Inspired by the Where’s Wally illustrations… we have start to think about the display of vast quantities of data and highlighting/ finding one figure/ element. We are again exploring the impression Read more…
We now have a lighthouse design with ten rotating triangular prisms (i.e. Toblerones) which gives us three rotating sides/ faces to play with (i.e. rain, sun and wind/cloud). We now need to work out what determines all the rain sides to show and visa versa. Some interesting questions emerging: Are Read more…
This week the team has started to embrace the challenge of how we might present all the Flora and Fauna in one space. How do we create the impression that this island is full of interesting and rare wildlife? See below for some of our thinking and early sketches…
Can we achieve the big bold bright colours with LED lights? Can we ensure that the colours don’t bleed into one another? We have done some further experiments with backlighting the map….this time seeing how possible it would be to create hard edges between the colour zones. Some are with Read more…
The impressionists (1860-1900) were a group of artists who decided to paint, very simply, what they saw, thought, and felt. They weren’t interested in perfection and accuracy of visual appearances. They were more interested in capturing the “impression” of how a landscape, person or thing appeared to them at a Read more…
Thank you to Danielle Williams (CCC Waste Strategy Officer) who joined us this week for our team meeting. Danielle filled in a number of gaps in our thinking whilst also got us thinking about our PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY when it comes to recycling. Imagine 30% of our black bags are still Read more…
