Friday, 10 December 2010

LED Brief - on hold



Spent a day last week preparing the files for the wooden and LED mock up of the butterfly effect diagram. Here is the file for the cnc machine, it shows where all the 3mm holes need to be cut through. These holes are where each of the LED's would go, above this would be a print of the design onto tracing paper. This means that different colours will have light shining through them.









Using binary and a clock this is how the circuit would work for the LEDs. Apparently this could run off a battery.

Unfortunately due to the snow the parts are not going to be available for delivery in time to complete this for deadline. Also the cost of the parts are quite high, bearing in mind we're working with 200+ LEDs so for the time being it's not feasible.

Although I'm not able to actually produce this before deadline I think it's still been an interesting process. I've managed to have discussions with Roger who specialises in lighting and learnt a lot about circuitry and how projects like this could work. It's also made me think more about the kind of materials that can be used and I think made me more keen to collaborate with someone either on the 3D course or interior architecture so I can learn from them. I still plan on doing this brief after Christmas since the whole point of me doing it was to do something practical, and currently I've learnt about how to do it and prepared for it and the only thing I haven't achieved are the practical skills.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Sunday, 5 December 2010



After talking to Graham I looked at how images could be included into the map. I thought about using photographs in combination with the pictograms as a sort of key, or to have very wide and long photographs along the top and bottom of the map. Graham discussed with me how this may change the way people use the map, and having something more visual/photographic may make people actually want to keep it on their wall for a long amount of time. When I actually tried to do it though I think it cheapened the design of the map and the pictograms of location lost their impact.

Saturday, 4 December 2010



I've now added the grid as well as re-adjusted the type size for the sea names. I've also started to add on some of the locations. It's quite interesting actually when seeing visually the locations of the divesites, although there are only 2 types of dive on there at the moment there seems to be quite an interesting relationship.

A lot of the locations are small islands which I didn't initially include, but also the size of the icon covers it up anyway so these are some of the things I'm having to address now I'm putting the design together. This seems to be the point at which the problems in the design are arising and I'm having to work out the best solution.