GMU:Max and I, Max and Me/Quan Zhou

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Tumbleweed (rethinking title)

Idea

Tumbleweed[1][2] lives in the north of the world. It grows from a seed. In autumn, its roots will dry up, and the whole plant will be easily moved by the wind. When they are moved by the wind, their seeds will also fall to the ground while they are tumbling. It is an alien species to the United States, and the United States is threatened by it every year[3]. They will block the roads, will block people's doors and cause some disturbance to people's lives. I thought about what would happen if I made a similar object like this and put it in a southern city's street in China? This city has a humid climate and is very different from the environment tumbleweed lived before.

北正街球.jpg 化龙池球01.jpg

Interactive way

Draft 02 .jpg

When human touch it, it will tumble to opposite direction

The way of movement

Trumbleweed draft 01 .jpg

See more if you are interest in various ways of ball rolling

Previous ideas

Technical solution

  • Movement

According to the survey, find the easiest way to drive the ball - put a car powered by a motor inside the ball.

  • Sensing solution

Currently intends to rely on the camera to track the human body to convey the information of human approach.

Experiments

Physical Part

Motor car in transparent ball

Programming Control

Cv.jit.face test

Others

References

Student work

  • Soundscape installation from Felix Geith [4]

Resources

  • Movement way of ball [5]
  • Fans on cube [6]