The assignment: Create a sculptural environment constructed with the haptic modeling interface. The work is intended to be experienced by touch alone. The ‘viewer’ will not see the objects you’ve created. Rather, they will explore the environment by interacting with the piece through the haptic feedback pen.
The haptic device (“Happy”) is a force feedback system mostly used for modeling in 3D.
It looks like a little arm with a pen attached to it. In the background on the monitor you can see a translucent image of my “sculpture.” It’s a whole bunch of bubbles inside a sphere… the idea being you’re stuck physically wandering around inside this annoying labyrinth… but when do finally get out (there are ways out) you are sad because you preferred the definition you felt on the inside to the feed-back-less abyss outside.
Sigh.
My original idea was a lot better, but I couldn’t get it to work well enough.
I wanted to force the user’s hand to write one person’s name over and over and over- kind of a forced middle school crush, mantra, obsession. I thought it’d be funny to use someone’s name from within the class I have to present in, but not tell them haha
oh well!
