In this second part of the IDW25 recap I want to talk about the prototype I created of my CO2 project. The goal for me was to build an installation to interact with the data visualisation. For this I chose makey makey and built a control mechanism with aluminium foil and a pressure plate. To send the data from processing to the projector I used Arena Resolume. My concept was based on the CO2 footprint. So you activated the animation with steping on the pressure plate. Here are first sketches of my idea.
I thought about making an interactive map where you step on different countries and realease fog in a glas container. But that was too much to create in one week so I reduced the concept to projecting the boundary I showed in my last blog post. I kept it simple and connected the makey makey to aluminum foil to control the time line with a finger tap. The processing output is being projected on the wall.
Conclusion
It was interesting to get to know the possibilities of the used technology to visualise data and therefore I had a lot of fun during production. I will definitly keep working on this project to see where it can go. Also expand the data set to compare more countries. In the first part of the blog post I mentioned that there are probably better programs to make more visually appealing animations for such a topic. But for a rough protoype this was completly fine.
