Ever since I saw the brief for the group of Place, I was so excited and had so many ideas about where this project could go. An opportunity to get my hands on and learn new technology too? Sign me up!
LiDAR is a technology that I’ve been aware of, but not something that I’d personally looked into. After seeing the examples from our tutor Asad and his PhD… let’s just say I started reading more on it.
Given an unlimited amount of time, money and equipment, I would develop this project into larger room exhibition. I very much envision something in my head similar to that of RYOICHI KUROKAWA project s.asmbli [ wall ] . With multiple screens in a large dark room where the sound can echo throughout. I talk about this in my post about Digital Exhibitions
https://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/project/saw.html
I’ve learned a lot from a lot of my teammates. David has shown me how MaxMSP works as I am interested in using it for my dissertation; Allison has refreshed and updated some of my Arduino knowledge. I’ve been introduced to new sensors and the capabilities of TouchDesigner. Frankly I’m in awe of those who worked on the TouchDesigner and MaxMSP side of the project as they knew nothing of it in the beginning, and were self taught. Dani taught me about 3D printing and I witnessed her trails and errors if failed prints and rejoiced when they worked.
How has this impacted the way I work? I like to say that I always aim high in anything I apply myself to. This project has only heightened that as we were able to achieve an amazing result that I am so incredibly proud of. I would happily present this project again with all the new updates and fixes that are possible to make it even more impactful.
Finally I would like to say a massive thank you to my team, upon first meeting them, I knew that we had a good group. There was such a good array of skills and expertise that the possibilities were vast. We all listened to each other, talked issues through, experimented on ideas and were fair and just in our work distribution. David spent so much time developing the Max Patch and working with his fellow sound task force (Chenyu, Xiaoqing and YG); Allison has created amazing videos for our final submission and worked her Arduino magic with TouchDesigner alongside Yijun and Yuxuan. Daniela, who I worked closest with kept me sane and helped me work through stubborn Cyclone, CloudCompare and Blender projects and stayed with me during late nights spent in the Atrium.
Thank you to Asad Khan for his creative and passionate guidance, Jules Rawlinson for solving so many issues; Dave Taylor for his patience with moving computers and downloading software for us.
I can’t forget, thank you to our most important teammate: Liam the LiDAR Scanner.
It’s been a wild ride. I would do it again.
