For Information Visualisation and Typography David and I decided to work together. The first thing that we had to do was come up with an idea. According to the brief the idea had to be a digital clock that represented the concept of time. The first thing we decided to do was to look at existing clocks and to see what we could take as inspiration from them. For this we headed to Pinterest! we found several ideas which we thought could work.
Mood board. David Valente
Some of the initial ideas that I came up with are outlined below;
Time Zone Clock. Will Cottrell
The first few ideas that I had were different ways to show time dilation. This idea shows different hands on a clock which represent different time zones, when the user clicked on a particular hand from one of the time zones all the others would like up so that the clock was easier to read. I decided to develop this idea for the crit session and the image below shows what I came up with.
Refined Idea. Will Cottrell
This idea is a refined version of the sketch above. It has been improved a so that the user can see which part of the hand represents which time zone. This was the issue I had with the hand drawn sketch. the user wasn’t able to identify which hand was for which time zone.
The other idea which I had was to show all the different time zones on a map and to interlink them similar to a networking diagram. I thought it would be interesting to expand this idea so that all the cities within the same time zone would be linked together. I decided not to take this idea to the crit session as I wasn’t happy with the concept and how it would actually work. The feedback from the crit session that we received was good and our ideas that we produced were sound. The only issue with our ideas was it didn’t push to hard at the brief and stretch the concept of time too much.
After this we went back to our initial ideas to see what we had, One thing that I had mentioned in the initial ideas was Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. This is the idea that the passage of time of an object observed is different to that of the observer. This really interested us as it gave the impression of time slowing and speeding up. The concept was a good idea to take forward and to explore because it was a challenge to explain and there are many ways in which it can be shown. As we had recently done projection mapping in IIID module I though this would be a good idea.
Projection Mapping. Will Cottrell
The image above shows my concept idea for projection mapping. We were going to use computer vision to detect the movement of two different orbital bodies around the screen, the interaction that was to be generated from this was the change in distance between the two objects. This change in distance effects the velocity need to stay in an orbit around another body, with this I was aiming to calculate the time dilation between the two objects. The concept is good but we need to look at the viability of the projection mapping in terms of Hardware and Software limitations and the time we have to achieve this.
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