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Description
The purpose of this assignment was to retell a story from “The Wellington City and Sea Museum” with in the last century.
I chose the year 1982 the year in which Wellington became nuclear free city. The way in which i chose to retell the story was by having a interactive slide show which would be be able to be manipulated by a an atom molecule model.
The interactive slide show has images that tell the story of by showing pictures from the time. Also the slide show will look like a retro television set.
And reflect the cause (the nuclear powered USS Truxton) and effect (the protesters) of this issue.
How it works
By picking up the atom and moving it around the atom in turn this changes the image on screen. There are two different outcomes when playing with this composition. Either you get images of the USS Truxton or get the images of the protesters.When the atom is not being played with the composition will revert to a television static.
Reflections
Reflecting back to the start of this assignment i my idea has evolved since the start. But to talk about my assessment as a whole would make this blog post hard to understand. So I have broken my assignment into three categories.
Electronics
This part of the assignment was fairly easy but very quite time consuming. Also I found electronics to be quite fun and interesting.
Interface
Originally i waned to look at making the interface out of Perspex but i found out is very tricky to use and cumbersome. From there i used wood which was alot easer to use. also I fond out that collecting materials is allot harder to find.
Quartz Composition
After some studying up on this program i found Quartz to not be as complex as MAX/MSP. However I found it to be allot harder to find help on the internet. also finding photos was actually easer than i originally thought .
Images
Videos
Quartz composition.
Interface.