Andrea Bong - BENV2324

references and credits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBtNeB2l9Uw light tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVpL1QEtqBc light tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UO65aCpuu4&feature=related light tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDV7uRGpzdM&feature=related light tutorial

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/ crysis forum

game

http://www.mediafire.com/?z4mk7afhkm28s3c

sketchup
http://www.mediafire.com/?usf5ozl4z4bck9m

experiment 2 THE ANALYTICS ENGINE

THE RESPOND OF THE SENSOR IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.

image credit: Rafael Lozano Hemmer 2011 Australia
installation view, Manchester Art Gallery, United Kingdom, 2010-11 incandescent light bulbs, voltage controllers, heart rate sensors, computer and metal sculpture Image courtesy the artist and Manchester Art Gallery © the artist Photo: Peter Mallet

http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/3288-rafael-lozano-hemmer-recorders

BRIEF FOR THE ANALYTICS ENGINE

It is technology that is shaping our society and accelerating changes around the world from time to time. For my analytics engine, I would like to show how sensors are one of the advanced devices that are widely used.

My chosen pachube feed is “temperature and light sensor”. I generated the idea by analyzing the meaning of temperature and light sensor and slowly developing my idea from there. A temperature sensor is a device to sense temperature and respond to temperature simulation. My analysis is as a person goes closer to the temperature sensor, the body temperature which has body heat gives out heat and as it goes nearer, the temperature sensor will respond more. And therefore, I made the average velocity flowgraph which is used to see how close the person is to the area which sensor. The closer the player is to the place, the higher average velocity and also more heat. This is my analysis on temperature sensor applied in crysis.

Light sensor on the other hand, is a device used to detect light. It normally works as a n automatic controller that detects the amount of light in the room and adjust the lightings to a more comfortable level of brightness. But in this case, it turns on the light when it senses people around. So this also applies to the flowgraph- average velocity which tells if the player is around or nearby, then the light will light up.

CONCLUSION: THE RESPOND OF THE SENSOR IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.

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experiment 2

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT- THE TUTORIAL

THE TUTORIAL- creating light

The topic of my tutorial is creating a light. The reason for selecting this is because I think it relates back to my first and second experiment. In my first experiment, I made flowgraph to ,make objects glow as for the second experiment, I picked a feed with the title temperature and light sensor but I focused more towards light and decided to go with light instead. I concluded that and therefore decided to make a tutorial showing how to create light in sandbox2.

Light, according to Wikipedia is an electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye. Other words, it is also a form of energy. Light has become such an important element on earth however people do not tend to see the importance of it and sometimes take it for granted until something happens, for example when the lights go off, when the power supply is down or when the electricity goes off, especially at night and only then we realize how important it is to us. The light source has become an essential and we almost can’t live without it unlike those days where light has not existed and people lit candles to get light source.

My tutorial is all about going back to basics and creating light. The tutorial is for all users, however there will a flowgraph so it is good if there is FlowgraphPluginSystem installed. The tutorial is conducted using camtasia studio. I did the tutorial with clear instructions written on the screen, the reason for this communication with the viewers is that I find this way more straight forward and easier for viewers to see it and understand because of past experiences, recording verbally and giving out instructions verbally can sometimes be frustrating for viewers because it might not be clear spoken and it would be difficult for the viewers and sometimes have to replay the tutorial over and over again and that is really inefficient. I also made the arrows from the mouse in a different colour to make it easier for viewers to follow it without having problem seeing it. Also, there is background music to make the whole tutorial less dull and boring.

Although it is just creating light in sandbox, but it can be interesting, I was surprised that there are so many styles of lighting and creating light is really useful in sandbox, especially when you are creating a scene, an environment, setting up a place for instance a restaurant, a school, buildings and more, everything enquires lightings and therefore learning and knowing how to create light is important so that you can do and play around with it.

In conclusion, something simple can be very useful since it is an essential and it is used commonly and in the real world people are using it every single moment so if we want to make our digital gaming world as real as the real world we should do it right and get the essential details done correctly starting from LIGHT !

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flowgraph to make lights work video1

The reason for doing this is to show light in the building that symbolizes light sensor. When the player is close to the sensor, the light will go off and that shows how the player can be detected.

Sketchup models for analytics engine

The sketchup models. It is designed in this way so that when player enters in the middle, the sensors at the side can sense the player walking close towards it. Also, the design shows similarity to the image of the analytics engine. The people is in the space and the more people, more temperature, more lights.