Thursday, September 23, 2010

Porosity Lens Brief

The focus for my Porosity lens explores the way in which the human race interacts with specific and different environments. In this case of this porosity study, there is a central focus on Sydney's Town Hall station, and the public and private nature of this environment.

In evaluating the way people use the specified environment, I have employed the use of several Crysis AI characters to reflect the human race. Using flow graphs I intend to control the movement of these characters, stimulating a public space that rapidly changes during the low and peak times of the day. When the AI characters enter the "trigger" area a light will turn on and when they leave the trigger area, the light will turn off. This will enhance the clarity of the way these changes are documented and presented. In reality, these changes are usually triggered by the time of day. For example, the busiest times of day for Sydney's CBD are when people are traveling to and from work and lunchtime. Consequently, I aim to document these represent these trends in time through my Real Time Interactive environment. When the "trigger" area is busy, occupied by a relatively large number of AI characters the time of day and consequently the natural sunlight will change, and the time and light would change again when the public "trigger" area falls into disuse throughout the day.

These flow graph node will successfully enable me to reflect and comment on not only the way people use the public space of Town Hall station, but also determine how long people spend in the environment.

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