Sketch Ideas

I started designing some potential ideas for my design. They are similar in technologies and materiel's but the design, composition and form are quite different.

 This design is the most dissimilar to my first project. It doesn’t use a motor and instead relies on human interaction and kinetic energy to get it to move. The "bouncing" from the elasticated cord make the EL wire jiggle around leaving behind light traces.












 

For this design It uses a motor and a proximity sensor for interaction. when People aren't around it turns slowly with the EL wire strands relaxed but when it senses a person near it the ball speeds up and so does the EL wire sequencing.

This design Idea is quite similar to my project one in the sense that it is El wire that spins leaving behind Light traces. I have been experimenting with form and interaction with this design and instead of it changing when people interact with it, it changes with music. I would have it so that depending on the tempo and pitch of the music it would activate different colours and patterns. In one design I thought of having a certain colour group attached to another motor that changes the shape of the light.

I have also thought about using different shapes for different colours to make it look quite erratic and then combining sequencing and patterns to bring the form to life.