Finalized Visuals
We have finalized all the visuals and have packaged them into the controller that we built.
Here is a list of the visuals:
Act 1, Visual 1: Starry Bodies
Act 1, Visual 2: ODU Pattern Tunnel
Act 2, Visual 1: Dotted Outline
Act 3, Visual 1: Pyramid (Growing Squares)
Act 3, Visual 2: War (Bouncy Lines)
Act 4, Visual 1: Tangled Lines
Act 4, Visual 2: Snowy
Here is a list of additional visuals:
Additional 1: ODU Tunnel (Background) + Starry Bodies (Bodies)
Additional 2: Pyramid (Background) + Dotted Outline (Bodies)
Additional 3: Pyramid (Background) + Bouncy Lines (Bodies)
(Exact visual will be updated in the next week’s blog)
Documentation Preparation
Currently, the documents contain:
Hardware (Hardware walkthrough)
Software (Software walkthrough, Control Panel Introduction, System Tutorials)
Installation Guide (How to install the physical hardware, the software, and how to calibrate)
Post Mortem:
We also start writing our Post Mortem, which will covers the good process during the development, as well as the improvable points that we reflect on.
Finalizing Schedule for Sunday (Demo Shooting)
On this Sunday (April 23rd, 2023), the dancers are flying from Georgia to shoot a visual demo for every visuals above, with an additional 18-20 minute performance.
Here is the timeline for the day:
09:00AM – 09:30AM: Arrive, do introductions, get everything set up
09:30AM – 09:50AM: Sequence 1; Act 1, Test_lyingdown, starry bodies
09:50AM – 10:10AM: Sequence 2; Act 1, tunnel w/ background
10:10AM – 10:40AM: Sequence 3; Act 2, dotted outline
10:40AM – 11:00AM: Sequence 4; Act 3, cubes / building civilization
11:00AM – 11:30PM: Sequence 5; Act 3, lines / going to war
11:30AM – 12:00PM: Sequence 6; Act 4, tangled lines
12:00PM – 12:20PM: Sequence 7; snowy
12:20PM-12:40PM: Sequence 8; tunnel and starry bodies
12:40PM-1:00PM: Sequence 9; non-interactive pyramid and dotted outline
1:00PM-1:20PM: Sequence 10; non-interactive pyramid and lines/going to war
1:20PM-2:00PM: Lunch
2:00PM-2:30PM: Prepare for final performance
2:30PM-4:00PM: Final performance
Final Presentation:
We also started making our final presentation slides with a general structure:
1. Team
2. Overview
3. Collaborator
4. Deliverables
5. African cosmology through technology
6. Technology Breakdown
7. Problem of tech and how we tackled them
8. Narrative and visuals (four acts)
a. Interest Curve
9. Video
10. Client’s package. And controller
11. What worked well
12. What we tried and what we learned
13. Summary
