Interactive Visualisation

Here you can see what I have done for my Interactive visualisation assignment. I have created a lonesome and mysterious island that had been conquered by pirates many centuries ago. The objects such as the ship wreck, the skeletons, the bones and the strip saber are made with blender. If you walk around on the island you can hear the theme song of Pirates of the Caribbean. Here are some pictures that I have taken. 

the wreck in blender

 the bones and the skeletons have a bone material but it is difficult to recognize

In order to play it yourself you can just click on this link:
http://d.pr/f/wN0b
and download the zip file, after clicking on it you will be able to play it yourself through your web player.

Sketching

Sketching Class

Here are some sketches that I have drawn in Sketching class. I know that they might not the best but compared to the first ones that I did during the course, they have greatly improved.

Design in Context
One exercise for this course was to create something that could be used as an extension for the body. For example a device that would help you to point out certain things.
I have created a kind of "glove" that you can put around your hand and use it for giving presentations. You will be able to control the presentations with the buttons on the bottom of the glove (eg. 2. picture) The glove would also have touchscreen on the top side, which can show you your current presentation and you will also be able to use the screen in a way such as a tablet pc so you can affect your presentations by clicking on certain links and etc. .

Smart Environment SOS

For the Smart Environment Project, my group and I decided to built a Secure Overtaking System (SOS). This is a system that can be integrated into a car, which will then inform you constantly if it is safe to overtake the car in front of you or not. We have built a model, where one car (the red one) is overtaking a parked tractor while from the other side a white car is coming. We build the system in a way that there are two different variants, one where the overtaking car is safely overtaking the tractor, where our system has told the driver it is safe to overtake. The other version is where our system tells the driver that it is not safe to overtake but the car will overtake anyways and the two cars will crash. Our system works with distance sensors that realise how fast the other car (white one) is driving and will then be able to tell if it is enough space or not for an overtake. The advice of our system is represented by green and red lights, for safe and unsafe overtaking. In the real world the system could you satellites instead of distance sensors, so it would become more practical. And also did we only use a parking car for the one that is being overtaken, the reason for that is that we would have needed too much space and our model was already 2 m and 50 cm.

Smart Environment SOS

There is a video on my youtube channel to the right, which is a commercial about our product.

Mailbox

For the course of Programming and Physical Computing we had the assignment to create a system that is able to show you, in the real world, if you have received in email. My partner and I have builded a mailbox such as one that many people in america have, so if you receive an email, the white handle will go up and stay up until you read the mail(s). You can see a video of that on my youtube channel to the right.

Assignment 3

Assignment 3 was to create an internet site that is as bad as possible. I have tried to make my site as unstructured as possible, so the viewer has difficulties to find anything on the site. Furthermore have I used a font that is very difficult to read as the colour of the font and the background are nearly the same. I have used a random picture and a random video in order to confuse the viewer. In addition have I used gadgets that do not fit to the internet site and their size is also making it harder to have a good overview over the page. Besides from that have I used a table with information that does not make any sense and there are no description on the site, so the viewer never knows what is going on.

The link to my page is
https://sites.google.com/site/mybadsite8/home

Assignment 2

The second Assignment in our course We create identity is that we have to talk about our plans for our websites and that we should gather our work for our portfolio. I have started to improve my blog/ website with additional pages however I am planning to use a different website, where one has more opportunities in changing the style of the website. Therefore I will create a website on a different platform in order to have more freedom. I will use this side as my blog and I will link it to my web site. On that web site I will upload more information about me and my life, in form of pictures, text and maybe short videos.