Week 15

Final Prototype

With the main page done, it was time to settle the others, i.e making sure gesture to browsers, collaborative poetry, and cursor party works, and is usable, on my website.

Collaborative Poetry

I used Spencer Chang's playHTML code to enable a can-move attribute, which worked super seamlessly. The code allows for users to shift the words around, and basically the code reads where it stays, and so it becomes like an internet guestbook. What I couldn't get to work, is for users to add their own words, which I do intend to figure that out during the break.

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Cursor Party

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For cursor party, all I needed to do was to spend a little more time re-installing party kit into garden web website, and ensure that its showing in the partykit dev.

Documentation

The setting up process was a simple one, I made use of the materials around the studio, including the studio lights, where the cables took some time to find. But we are seriously so lucky to have these studio lights so readily available at hand. It makes the documentation process so much easier.

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Encountered an issue where I realised my macbook can't handle the gesture detection, it was really laggy. I would have to find a way to fix it... maybe during the break...

For the lag and the loopholes that the actual recording process couldn't capture, I used screen-recorded videos to cover up. I actually think it works out better since, it's clearer, and since my experiments rely a lot on multiplayer interaction, showing the actual interaction with more than 10 people seems more convincing, rather than a person in an empty space. Anyways, here's the video, more documentation at the actual prototype website and catalogue of making!

Table Documentation

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I purchased A3, A4, and A5, 5mm acrylic plates on shopee, to set them up on table, which I briefly tested them on my table at home. I love how the acrylic plates make everything looks more sophisticated and better presented.