We had a small meeting with our team leader Lulu to tie up some loose ends. Which for the most part were the small visual holes we had, but one big thing was the actual layout of our exhibit. We knew we were going to use tracks, on a smaller scale and handmade after concluding that our original idea was indeed too expensive and complicated. We hadn’t decided the scale of this. Originally the plan was to have the spheres be quite large, but that would be not only hard to move, but also hard to make in such a short time. Dave had already suggested scaling everything down, even to a type of switchboard so the focus could be on the digital visual. However we were determined to still make it a big enough model to really feel like an interactive exhibit that people could move around.
We had talked to Jules briefly about the layout of the Atrium and how it could be set up for our work. We wanted to project a lot of things, and Jules said we could drape sheets down the sides of the Atrium scaffolding. He also suggested projecting visuals from the back of the sheets, so it wouldn’t be in the way for the audience.
I made some basic layout sketches on Illustrator to demonstrate all these conclusions. First, it was much more scaled down. Then we decided to add three screens to surround the central planet set-up, with ambient visuals projecting on the left and right screens, and the central front one showing our reactive visual overlayed with the overhead projection of the water basin.
This is a very basic representation of the layout, and will probably change a bit after some tests and experiments. It definitely excited us to see how we would be setting it up because it made it all feel very real and imminent.
