Category: 10-ARSketch

Recently I’ve been having this urge of wanting to go travel somewhere in nature, probably even more due to quarantine and global pandemic where everyone is a potential health threat. Here are two ideas that reflect my want of traveling:

1. Exploring Mountain

Sketch on paper:

Brief Explanation:

I’ve only seen carabiner being used in two situations: rock climbing and bag decoration. I wondered what feelings and thoughts would it evoke in people if they saw it, 50 times its size, floating on a street with other pieces of rock.

Sketch with Just a Line :

In all three attempts of trying to record after somehow figuring out to draw with Just a Line app, the app froze and deleted my drawing…(very unfortunate, especially in a cold weather without gloves) I ended up recording my screen instead of using the built in recorder, but I couldn’t attempt to give another shot for the second idea due to the coldness.

2. Exploring Beach

Sketch on paper:

Brief Explanation:

People would often take a sip of a cold drink, whether it be coffee or orange juice, from a bottle like those. Often it is a drink of their choice that makes them happy. I wondered what would it be like if the bottle that is usually for a drink contained fun beach memory instead. Similar to the previous idea, I intend this to be on a street, about 3-4 feet tall.

My idea is an extension of my pet simulation app for the network project. I tried doing these with justALine but it was difficult to decipher, so I drew some simple sketches here. The idea is very simple, basically at different corners of the house, the user will see different pet related objects on the furniture/floor, with some minor scripted animation, to simulate the experience of actually owning a dog. Does having these items around the house bother you? Or you can not stand its full box of toys beside your beautiful plant? Let’s find out.

For my AR project, I have a few ideas that are just humorous and light-hearted:

Idea #1: Is there bubblegum stuck to your shoe, or is the shoe stuck to the bubblegum?

• Following my previous artworks and sculptures that were digitally built, I generally love making organic, bubbled, almost grotesque shapes, so that’s how I would like to construct my chewed bubblegum
• The sculpture’s size would be gigantic compared to the shoe that it will on/almost swallowing
• I was deciding on the location, and I think either just on a sidewalk (like I just found I stepped on bubblegum) or next to my house’s shoe shelf.
• For the programmed action, I’m kinda stumped on this but I was thinking when you get closer, it swallows the shoe whole? Or just disappears when you click it (that’s kinda boring though).

Idea #2: Help! I think there’s a monster haunting me!

• Again another organic, bubbly shape
• Size: gigantic and bigger than a person
• Location: I think just in my home and using my family as my subjects being haunted by this creature
• Programmed action: I don’t know if this counts as an action, but I was thinking maybe if you click on it, it makes a weird monster noise. Another idea is swallowing the person.
• Problem: I don’t know if it’s possible/if I know how to implement a way to detect a person’s silhouette?
• I can see myself having a lot of fun with making a performance for the documentation video with this idea

Sketches: I tried using just a line to sketch my ideas, but it just didn’t work out since my sculpture ideas are all organic shapes

I have 3 mains ideas for this project, I only  used JustALine in one of them because I found the process of using this app insanely difficult since my sketches would get deleted, and I would not be able to save the videos directly into my images. I’m assuming they would save to my google drive but when I checked they were not there.

1. 1. Peculiar lifeforms
      1. Bizzare organic creatures, ideally bugs, slimes, spirits or other sort of soft/sharp and weird things springing up to live in random corners as you walk through a neighborhood. I like the idea of very small organisms being able to be seen only with your phone camera.
      2. The main scripting behavior for this I want to play around with is the spawning and movement of the creatures.
         1. It would be nice to have some sort of responsive behavior, maybe they approach certain objects.
      3. Sketches
         1. I tried to use Justaline to draw this but it didn’t really look great. I retook the video a lot of times and it doesnt look great but I do have tons of sketches.
            WhatsApp Video 2020-11-29 at 4.11.28 PM
         2. This image (1) below shows some of my process in ideating the mushrooms, It is a little unclear but essentially it shows street corners.
         3. Refined digital sketch:
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   2. Upside down view
      1. This is a very very basic Idea I have, and my process is shown above with the first idea as (2). It would be nice yo have an app that requires human input/interaction in such a way that requires movement. I think Id like to make an app that allows people to place objects upside down and to see them, it would require the person to move in this way. I don’t have much to show about this frankly. But I thought it would be cool to bring up.
   3. “Reforestator” Lol
      1. I am sort of thinking about the artificial trees in the Lorax for this one. Miami/South Florida in general has had a lot of urban development and gentrification through the past few years. Many protected areas of land have gotten their trees cut down and destroyed. I thought it would be interested to make an AR app that spawned trees wherever the camera detected an empty plot of land. These trees wouldn’t look realistic at all, but rather blank, standard-texture (or maybe a shiny texture like glass or water), and as you walk through them they have some sort of response (ex. perhaps you can tear them down with a tap. or you can add a texture to them).
      2. Sketches: I know its not too clear what is happening in my sketch but essentially trees are outside of a person, and maybe you can place them down.
      3. Refined digital sketch:
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