Saturday, September 12, 2015

Enterface Prototyping


Built a couple of very simplified prototypes in GML using ASEPRITE for an 8-bit resolution.

Freud would have something to say about the shape of that wiggling hallway, but he can suck a cigar.

The first just shows directional correspondence with keyboard arrows (up, down, left, right)

Secondly I turned the simple directional frames into a crude animated hallway of corridors. This required slightly more sophisticated coding to create transitions that behaved naturally from a turning-in-place and moving forward first-person-view.

The prototype is aesthetically crude, but the principle of the visual interface programming is there. Just match the keyboard presses to EOG sensors and you've got a real working prototype.


I ordered some of these sleeping gel masks while thinking about application for the sensors. These objects alone are inspiring a divergent body of work. Looking into how one with my facilities might produce similar "enterfaces".


Enterface

Tribal masks ritualized to reverse aging. Wrapped around the face extending the skin through a prosthetic barrier. 


Faces of mythology enter sleep with a cool bravado warding away decay, the passage of time. 


Seeing feeling. 



So what the hell is that liquid? It's a "dry gel" that turns to the jelly consistency you know and love when you add water. I found the MSDS sheet on it and bulk bags for $25 and under.

http://www.axizz.com/msds/MSDS-Temtro-Dry-Gel.html

I'm now wondering how difficult it would be to fabricate a custom plate to create original masks. Judging by the look of these tools available from a company called TOSS Heat Seal, they're nothing short of a thin plate metal shaped for different curves and effects. With some trial and error I think I could make some "molds" of my own cutting the plates using the water jet at the Fabrication Laboratory.






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