Facilitating Collaboration
Concept: The concept for our (Caeleigh and I) project is a hidden message. The patch starts off with a black screen and begins to take in sound inputs. Based on the loudness of the sound, different words start to become brighter, or become white and appear on screen. Some words need a small sound to appear, but other words would need a loud sound. Each time a person makes a noise into the microphone, the patch records one second of their noise and keeps it till the patch ends. When the words reach its maximum brightness, the words become stuck on the screen and stays there till the patch ends. At the end, the whole message is revealed and the patch plays all the one second recordings that it kept one after each other.
About This: Our concept developed as we worked with it to focus more on the sounds the user made to make the message appear. We made it more difficult to have a word light up white fully, having the user have to reach the required volume multiple times, and have them unable to start lighting up the next line until the previous is fully visible. As one continues to try and see the full message they often forget what they sound like doing so beside the volume, so we added a feature to the end. After the message is fully visible the patch plays back the high-volume portions of what the user shouted, the patch having recorded them on a buffer throughout the interaction. You shout at the patch, and it shouts back at you without the pauses and the quiet inbetween.
We did this project using three key features in our patch. First, was the reading the volume of the data received from the mic and using it to control the alpha/opacity of the words in the jit.window. Second, was the system of counters amongst the words that would count until a specified number before the opacity was changed not to be effected by the mic anymore. And lastly, the buffer that was attached to the patch to record any sound over a certain threshold during the use of the patch and play it back when the last line was finished.
Last updated: April 3, 2018
Group: 8 - Sandra Koo and Caeleigh Boara
Background Image: The Last Guardian
Hidden Message