other research into touch screeens

Touch screens are definitely not an original idea now a days but most of them are just like the science plasma balls you can buy at any $2 shop. These while attractive do not satisfy the project requirements. the effects of such displays are useful but i want to step away from the one touch one result concept and move more into each interaction to give a different out puts. So that a group of people can use this system and have fun and experiment with the code and create something new.

other examples of bars have done these sorts of systems (plasma balls), i wanted to use on the glass has an interactive feature. (so the use of hands on the bar does not effect the systems) I also wanted the song to be able to create an input (eg. color changes, creation of particles, etc)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKehq6qsdY


This is a good example of how i would like to implement this system, but is not what i want the final project to resemble.

Proposal of Idea

I was working behind the bar at the college pub after our last lab session were i found my self thinking of ideas for my project. After playing with a glass i remembered viewing blprnt 'just landed' (simulations of the spread of a virus) (see below), i noticed that the simulation used long strings that curved away from the planet, much like satellites in the earths gravitational field. With an interest in astromomy i was curious how i could intergrate a natural system into a gravitation field. I then looked into unique inputs into code, such as facebook or twitter inputs. Many of which have been done from taking a social networking site then use vaiables from there. but no code i found accually used the code its self as a social experiment. So hence forth spawned the idea of how i code use the code as a social experiment using a natural system? This is what i came up with:

a particle system that uses inputs from a social hub (eg a bar...... i.e. proximaty, who do u talk to etc) that alters over time to your actions in the bar. These will also be effected by the music played and the activity of the individual. enough of talk here is a basic sketch i constructed to get the intial look of what might hopefully be a strong idea