Sketch Installation
Sydney Dust Storm
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Week Two - Independant Study
Realism
Realism is an "intent to portray ordinary contemporary life, with attention to individual and regional eccentricities". The definition for realism, is "the epistemological position that objects exist independently of our knowledge of their existence".
Realism can be accomplished by many methods, which can represent or make something look as close to the original subject as possible. Its function can lead to a wide range of things. These include military schemes and strategies, which Russell talked about during the week eight lecture.
Representing realism through models allows us to experiment and observe how things interact with the environment, which in turn allows us to be able to come up with solutions for further improvements and understanding.
Games and simulators nowadays appear as realistic as possible. The player can be taken on a journey of navigation and response in terms of space, through interactive elements. When modelling the Town Hall subway station and importing it into Crysis, creates installations that challenges a person's navigation through the station and further gains insight into the system and how it functions. My Town Hall model will be used for testing to show the real effects of alternate conditions and courses of action.
Realism can be accomplished by many methods, which can represent or make something look as close to the original subject as possible. Its function can lead to a wide range of things. These include military schemes and strategies, which Russell talked about during the week eight lecture.
Representing realism through models allows us to experiment and observe how things interact with the environment, which in turn allows us to be able to come up with solutions for further improvements and understanding.
Games and simulators nowadays appear as realistic as possible. The player can be taken on a journey of navigation and response in terms of space, through interactive elements. When modelling the Town Hall subway station and importing it into Crysis, creates installations that challenges a person's navigation through the station and further gains insight into the system and how it functions. My Town Hall model will be used for testing to show the real effects of alternate conditions and courses of action.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Week One - Independant Study
Statement
When documenting the Town Hall Subway Station, only a handful of instruments from the list below are relevant. This is mainly due to the cost and availability of many of these instruments, as well as the scale in which I'm working in, will eliminate a majority of them. The main tools ill be using to document the station will include:
This device for measuring distance is a small to medium scale instrument which will allow me to fairly accurately determine distances with ease. Allowing me to quickly and efficiently map out larger areas.
This will allow me to accurately measure smaller scale areas of the subway, in a fairly simple way. I will however need another person to help hold one end of the tape measure.
Used to record voice will allow me to measure the many sounds that can be heard within the subway. This can be done using my mobile phone or another readily available instrument from home and therefore wont require any additional costs and will allow me to document and keep a record of any sounds heard.
Using my mobile phone or canon camera, I'll be able to capture as many photos as I desire, which I will then be able to take home and will help me to document the area, giving me a visual representation in which I can continue to develop a model of the subway, renewing my memory with a simple glance at a photo.
This will allow me to gain a sense of interaction, showing people and how their interacting in the relevant areas. This will also allow me to keep images on record.
I will use my own interaction, and senses to document the subway. This will give me a first hand account of the area.
These are cheap, relevant and readily available methods to documenting the subway station, as this is a fairly small scale project and measurements don't need to be highly accurate.
* Surveyor's Wheel
This device for measuring distance is a small to medium scale instrument which will allow me to fairly accurately determine distances with ease. Allowing me to quickly and efficiently map out larger areas.
* Tape Measure
This will allow me to accurately measure smaller scale areas of the subway, in a fairly simple way. I will however need another person to help hold one end of the tape measure.
* Microphone
Used to record voice will allow me to measure the many sounds that can be heard within the subway. This can be done using my mobile phone or another readily available instrument from home and therefore wont require any additional costs and will allow me to document and keep a record of any sounds heard.
* Camera
Using my mobile phone or canon camera, I'll be able to capture as many photos as I desire, which I will then be able to take home and will help me to document the area, giving me a visual representation in which I can continue to develop a model of the subway, renewing my memory with a simple glance at a photo.
* Infra-red Camera
This will allow me to gain a sense of interaction, showing people and how their interacting in the relevant areas. This will also allow me to keep images on record.
* Myself
I will use my own interaction, and senses to document the subway. This will give me a first hand account of the area.
These are cheap, relevant and readily available methods to documenting the subway station, as this is a fairly small scale project and measurements don't need to be highly accurate.
SolidWorks Town Hall Subway Station
BENV2423 - EXPERIMENT TWO - Week One
Measuring Aspects of a Real Site
GEOMETRY
Architects Scale: a specialised ruler used in making and measuring from reduced scale drawings, such as blueprints and floor plans. It is marked with a range of calibrated scales.
Caliper: a device used to measure the distance between two symmetrically opposing sides.
GPS: Global Positioning System provides reliable positioning, navigation and timing services to worldwide users on a continuous basis in all weather, day and night, anywhere on or near the earth.
Odometer: indicates distance traveled by a car or other vehicle. device may be electronic or mechanical.
Ruler/ Tape Measure: is an instrument used to measure distances and to rule straight lines.
Surveyor's Wheel: also called a clickwheel, hodometer, waywiser, trundle wheel, or perambulator is a device for measuring distance.
Taximeter: is a mechanical or electronic device installed in taxicabs that calculates passenger fares based on a combination of distance traveled and waiting time.
Planimeter: is a measuring instrument used to determine the area of an arbitrary two-dimensional shape.
MATERIALITY
Durometer: one of several measures of the hardness of a material. Hardness may be defined as a materials resistance to permanent indentation.
Impulse excitation technique: a small mechanical impulse causes the sample to vibrate. The vibration depends on elastic properties, density, geometry and inner structures. Finds elasticity of a solid.
Universal Testing Machine: is used to test the tensile and compressive properties of materials.
SOUND
Laser microphone: is a surveillance device that uses a laser beam to detect sound vibrations in a distant object.
Seismometers: instruments that measure and record motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, nuclear explosions, and other seismic sources.
Microphone: is an accoustic-to-electric sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal, used for recording voice.
Sound level meter: measure sound pressure level and are commonly used in noise pollution studies for the quantification of almost any noise.
LIGHT
Camera: device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images.
Light Meter: device used to measure the amount of light. Often used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph.
Photodiode: capable of converting light into either current or voltage, depending upon the mode of operation
Light dependent resistor: is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing incident light intensity.
INTERACTION
Olfactometer: is a device typically used to measure the keenness of the sense of smell.
Medical thermometer: used for measuring human body temperature.
Human Body: Using yourself to gain a first-hand account of the area and interaction within it.
Infra-red camera: device that forms an image using infrared radiation.
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