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==== 17 July: leon the historian ====

  * Halogi - Halloy: "Little forest" first mentioned in 850ad, but existing since the times of the celts (BC) * roman foundations found around the place, including a roman oven with goddess diana burried in the ashes
  * one of the first registered wars was the '1 cow war that lasted 12 years'
  * for centuries the castle was the summer residence of the prince of Liege

  * Omalius
  * the geologist and his discovery of the 'cretatious' stratum ( the period between the last large dinosaurs and the beginning of flowering plants)
  * the local broadminded scientist being religious, but also a supporter of the beginning theories of evolution
  * as a polititian reformed the school system and included girls education up to 12 years
  * as a doctor, he founded preventive medicine in the region (vaccination against pox)
  * as a scholar set up a massive library in the castle
  * died as an old savant (92 yrs old) in brussels studying local geological strata (can his age be attributed to drinking excellent local beer?)
  * after he died and his daughter married, her children fought over the division of the property and over 2 centuries brought the castle to a near ruin. some of these descendents were named 'socialist barons' for their policies in the 1920ies when the regions was politically progressive left.

  * the appearance of the train-line caused a massive move of the local people from Halloy to Braibant

  * in the 2nd WW, Margareta from Ieper (born of a secret love between a Flemish woman and a Brittish officer during the 1st WW), working for the Belgian secret service (resistance) was parachuted and dropped over a grass field close to the chateau to seek a noble man who turned out to be prince Charles of Belgium, with whom she spent several weeks having romantic walks in the forest

  * local gastronomy:
  * carbonades flamandes (???)
  * patate (from hungary!!?)

Leon's presentation was interesting to discover a certain (true/false) history that has changed the group's perception of the site


==== 17-20 July: Movies that we watched in the off hours: ====
  * Cypher
  * Resurrection of the little match girl
  * (Flip's martial arts parody)
  * St John's Wort



==== 17 july: the drifts (psychogeographic walks) ====

  * looking for absurd stuff
  * contrast nature/human built structures (based on control)
  * light and darkness
  * schrijvertjes (surfing community of bugs on water) - interesting patterns of movement
  * bridge over the water
  * spiky plant
  * ferns growing out of a wall
  * tar smeared over plants to stop them growing through the road
  * iron wire through the branches
  * mushrooms as a dwarf village
  * contrast between dead and alive, idillic landscape with cows + barbed wire
  * a shadow play of branches on a canoe
  * experiences of near death (a dying fish in the pond)


  * human built objects embedded in nature
  * riven-line environment
  * electrical lines
  * moist wall inside tunnels
  * plants growing from a cracked wall
  * a sole branch as a separate entity floating in space
  * strange plant movements
  * "scanning" the environment in a limited way, looking at them as close-up surfaces, without figurative reference points
  * mediaeval feel of neglected garden furniture
  * overgrown paths
  * trees joined up with iron cables, with ivy drying up in contact with them
  * pointless bridges over dried up creek
  * strange formations of stones around the place
  * spider-webs with properties of a glass surface
  * waiting in vain for the dwarves around mushrooms
  * natural corridors made out of trees
  * organic shapes with rigid geometric structures (leaves)
  * branches growing on/in the water


  * long paths, corridors and tunnels through the forest
  * geometric patterns in fallen branches, forming beams with an abstract and complex structure
  * strange sized holes in the ground
  * vampire nails in beam structure of the barbecue place


  * flies everywhere (on cows, horses, people, plants and dead things (mouse, mushrooms)
  * waiting for the inhabitants living in human scale dwarf houses
  * can beer cans be contemporary mobile homes for dwarves?
  * dallas everywhere!
  * undulating lines through a wheat field, with mushrooms as landing platforms for dwarves or aliens
  * exercises in being a tripod
  * death everywhere (dead field mouse with green flies grazing on it)
  * miniature gothic church brown by trees
  * cows behind fences
  * ancient and massive chestnut trees
  * discovery of the dwarves wearing stars
  * forest ends in fences
  * private property warnings
  * a seductive dance of leaf-shadows and a neighbouring tree-trunk
  * a tree that dreams of being a fence
  * DD (designer dwarf) mushroom houses


  * fences
  * bridge leading to a fence
  * abstract signs in a forgotten language
  * plants growing through cracks of human built environments
  * 'prince charles frog'



==== 17 July: participant's presentations ====

Pablo, Eric, Sara, Tom, Flip and Marta have talked about their expectations and wishes for the workshop, have shown previous work and described their working processes


==== 18 july: things to take into consideration in the design: ====


  * borders and fences
  * frontiers and limits
  * human control of nature (and vice versa)
  * flies, insects, mushrooms and death
  * green is the colour of death?
  * green flies and surfing mosquitoes
  * are things dead or alive depends on the scale
  * structure of spider webs resembling nests/miniature houses
  * mushrooms can be seen as drawf dwellings or holes for insects
  * geometric patterns as abstractions of the environment:
  * grassy fields
  * a branch hanging in the air
  * structures of trees, branches and leaves:
  * casting shadows on the world around them
  * encapsulating a path to form an infinite, intricate tunnel
  * a straight, noisy, infinite train-line
  * insects (ticks, flies, water-walkers)
  * different viewpoints on the world: snails, insect swarms, growing plant

  * entanglement of:
  * natural and artificial
  * grown and built
  * human and non-human structures
  * straight and curved lines (based on their perception and intention)
	

==== 18 july: workshop leader presentations ====

Julian: http://www.selectparks.net/ ; http://www.escapefromwoomera.org/ ; http://fijuu.com/ Maja, Nik, Lina: http://fo.am ; http://fo.am/tgarden/ ; http://fo.am/txoom ; http://fo.am/groworld ; http://fo.am/p~lot ; http://fo.am/illumine

==== 19-20 july: blender ====

see: http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Tutorials.243.0.html for in depth tutorials


==== 21 july: audacity, gimp, nebula ====
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see: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ see: http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/tutorials/ for in depth tutorials see: [[Nebula Notes]] for quick overview of the relevant part of nebula for the MR media worlds workshop

=== 22 july concept development ====


  * what is the emotional temperature of the world?
  * what is the scale of the world? - can you see its limits?
  * no photorealistic modelling
  * using movement, behaviour of objects and light from the physical world to animate transparent shapes and surfaces
  * morphing between realistic/non realistic

  * garden as a minefield of truths
  * coming with an expectation, gathering information bits based on that expectation
  * a gallery of images that one can choose from
  * limiting the experience of the physical space
  * finding out what is interesting to experience in the virtual world
  * a world with constantly changing positions (as leon showed us, history is a relative phenomenon
  * travelling through the space as travelling through the archives of historical information. the path becomes the re-interpretation of different elements that are constantly rearranging themselves
  * an alive archive in which everyone passing through the chateau (both physical and virtual should place a new media element in the world, generating a large amount of paths through the 'truths'
  * movement as a journey through different strata (metaphor for history); the movement needs the space to be manipulated (requires a large amount of energy)
  * an archive (database) of memories in different media come to life in animated bitmaps
  * every stratum is one person's experience, a three dimensional cube surrounded by other strata (needs an immersive projection system with at least 2 faces

  * a dense space, filled with particles, moving from empty to full
  * simplicity: a claustrofobic world made up from a swarm of particles
  * when you stand still, the world shrinks and sticks to your skin (like a swarm of fireflies)
  * when you move and increase the energy in the system, the world becomes sparser, lighter and more comfortable

  * discovering things, being drawn to details, in an otherwise not too exciting surrounding. elements of wonder inside normalised reality
  * the discovered objects are passages, new realities that you can discover through interaction
  * light inside a tunnel can suck you into another space
  * feeling of surprise and enchantment, seduced by the richness of the world underneath, behind...
  * creating a fantastic world within the everyday reality, in a constant morph between reality and fiction

  * a tunnel: environment in which i'm limited, i can only see inaccessible realities that are not immediately evident, a tunnel is constructed from the density of the forest that i can't go through
  * feeling the navigation of insects under the floor - recognising the action only through its effects on the environment
  * inviting, inaccessible realities
  * the tunnel is created by different creatures passing through it. if the movement stops, the tunnel closes. the forest is continuously trying to take back its posession of the tunnel
  * tunnel: an eco-system of invisible beings
  * emotion: frustration, imagination
  * finding your own scale in different dimensions, a cozy situation in an otherwise threatening environment
  * coherence of infinite tunnels through a diversity of media

  * no physical boundaries (walls)
  * limits are changing atmosphere: border, connection
  * walls as particle systems, movables, changing direction, becoming ceilings, floors, walls again
  * changes remain until the next intervention

  * the world is a representation of the site and history of the chateau seen through personal experiences of the group; translated into a virtual topology; reorganised reality, a dynamic trace


=== 21 july: final consensus (full blown concept) ===



  * a dense, infinite tunnel built out of tiny elements (particles). every particle of the tunnel is alive
  * when the player scales the particles s/he can discover:
  * bits of historical sediment
  * flying insects
  * visual and sonic seeds
  * fully grown flora

  * when the train passes in the physical world (should be detected by its sound), the world is temporarily washed away:
  * the player looses control over the interaction with the world, the colours and objects disappear
  * the space vibrates and its physical properties temporarily change
  * the player can be teleported to another region of the tunnel

  * increasing the energy in the system allows the player tokeep the environment from taking posession of the tunnel, as well as to move through different spaces and emotional temperatures

  * the world responds differently depending on the amount of time spent in it. It moves from being unfriendly to friendly, or from interested to ignoring. the world is a forgetful place, so that after some time, it will treat a familiar player as a novice again
	
==== 21 july: sensor systems and interaction with accelerometers ====

introduction to accelerometers, cerfs, [[OSC]] and OZ (foam's sensor data transmission and analysis system (in max))
real and pseudo sensors possible to use in the design:

  * raw data (x,y or xyz)
  * smoothed data/bias
  * average over time
  * leaky accumulator
  * peak detection
  * zero crossing
  * delta/threshold
  * energy levels (x,y,z)
  * correlation


==== 21 july: reality check: possible interactive output in fijuuu: ====

  * mixing between forms
  * manipulating textures
  * changing the size of a form
  * non-linear scaling
  * rotating forms
  * growing forms
  * appearing and disappearing
  * minimalising light position and light colour
  * moving forms
  * concluded with an introduction to tlc scripting in nebula

==== 21-24 july: final compromise (minimal visualisation of the world) ====



  * in fijuuu: a cave (one thick part of the tunnel) with:
  * 1 interactive object in it (swarm of fireflies)
  * 3 animated objects (historic sediment, visual seed, branch)
  * rich texture visualising the idea of the tunnel being constructed out of media particles
  * interaction consists of: (1) looking around the cave by rotating around 2 different axis of the accelerometer and (2) shattering the swarm of fireflies by using the 'leaky accumulator' (accumulating data across 3 axis with a small 'leakage')

  * in blender: a richer visualisation of the tunnel, with lots more textured objects, moving lights and camera + an intro sequence of a dynamic map of the region of halloy
  * in max: a passing train detector, to be treated as a sensor in fijuuu
  * in after effects: compositing of the blender tunnel with a swarm of butterflies
  * in the physical world: a semi-transparent screen placed in front of a tunnel, creating an illusion of depth, projection on different surfaces to create an additional texture (walls, stairs, grass, trees, corners, people...)


==== 22 july ====

  * production of assets in blender and gimp and runtime scripts in nebula



==== 23 july ====

  * programming the interaction
  * alternative visualisation in blender, max and after effects
  * feasibility check and evaluation of the process



==== 24 july ====

  * finishing touches
  * physical displays
  * public experiment
  * blow-ball tournament



==== 25 july ====
  * closing brunch and departures

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an [[xmedk workshop]]