Week 1

Tuesday

On my first day I had 2 workshops on HTML and CSS. I had done work using HTML and CSS in college so for me it was more of a recap. However, going back over it again was quite helpful since I got to go more in depth on how a website is structed at both a front and backend level which will be able to help me build neater pages in the future.

Wednesday

This was the first day of “make it manifesto” where I was able to learn about projection mapping using a piece of software called MadMapper. This day was primarily tutorial on how to use the software with the group I was in.

Thursday

Here we started to to use projection mapping to create a display. my group at first tried to use the offline dinosaur game in our projection map.

The idea was to use blue for everything above the ground of the game and orange for the ground to show off the desert theme of the game. We tried to use a table by a wall to project the sand to the table and the sky to the wall to give the projection more depth.

We had found it difficult to get everything to line up so we decided to scrap this idea. We instead decided to work the other way round where we instead focused on what geometry we had available to us. we found two pillars in on the computing rooms and decided to project onto them and the wall behind them.

By using the approach we created a fiery gate on the pillars with a large eye on the wall behind it.