Sarah Choi – Looking Outwards – 12

One project, found online, was an interactive map by Sara B. It contained offices, a countryside, playground, house, and industries. This map was coded to be a 3D model coming out of a tablet. This was coded through a studio using images, shapes, and mouse functions. I admired this project because it gave the audience a better understanding of the layout of a certain area showing all different types of places.

https://codepen.io/aomyers/full/LWOwpR

Furthermore, another project I looked at was a hotel’s website in Lower Manhattan of New York City called, “Sister City”. This website used ideas of simplicity, purposefulness, and mindful design powered by Microsoft’s Custom Vision Service. This helped analyzed elements of the Sister City environment just from a camera on the roof. With artificial intelligence, the system recognized aspects of nature such as clouds and birds and triggered specific sounds to the installation. These sounds were then generated and installed in the lobby of the hotel creating a more natural environment to space in a very new setting. The ambient music formed an ambiance of the hotel, creating a more relaxed atmosphere overall. This was a very interesting take and immediately made me mesmerized. 

https://sistercitynyc.com/

The two projects together are so different but creative at the same time, which are what drew me from the very beginning. Both ideas pertain to my final project in the sense that Gretchen Kupferschmid and I want to design a 3D interactive map of Pittsburgh with ambient sounds showing our favorite restaurants and little shops we love visiting when looking for reasons to get outside the Carnegie Mellon “bubble”.