Approach
I have picked up momentum after last week. Last week I had the ambitious idea I was going to incorporate human movement into a projection design. First, I started with what I knew, by creating a system inside of Isadora which allows the user to move projected objects by a computer mouse. My next task was to transfer control from a mouse to human movement. Unsure of how I will be able to achieve a dynamic connection between computer and human, I began to ask around. I first went to Jess, and we began to troubleshoot together a system involving a web camera as an input device. The result of this system was a crude version of what I was after. Isadora could read real world movement through the web camera,translate said movement into a number, and use the number to tell objects in space how to move. Independently of Jess I began to streamline the system for efficiency. After a lot of finessing, most of the problems of long lag and projection glitches stopped. I went back to jess and then we wondered if a kinect would be better for an input. I also talked to Taylor and he suggested I look into the Beta version of Isadora where Kinect, or depth mapping, cameras are pre integrated into isadora. Meaning I wouldn't have to connect a depth mapping camera into isadora, saving time.
Relevant Research
I realized, after Maria shared a couple helpful videos of projection mapping onto cubes, I myself have yet to look into what others have created using just cubes. So, I started looking around at cube specific projection mapping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8S7CutgIE
Along with finding different cube specific projection mapping videos. I got curious and started using different key search terms, one of them being: Disney. I then found a projection mapping show on the Sleeping Beauty Castle in California. Not a cube, but gave me some ideas to work with. The Disney projection mapping show was complementing the visuals on the castle with a times audio tract. Working from the audio like a script or narrative guidelines to help support the visuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhV1LGw3A9U
Next Step
Using the disney castle projection show as inspiration I began to draw out 2D illustrations of how I can transform the box im working with into something other than a box. I also want to start working with the Isadora Beta and create a short interactive narrative using a song as a starting point.