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Basically, my idea since the second assignment has been the same except for a few changes which will be highlighted shortly. Here is a summary of the prototype;

There is a lot to write about for my prototype, but much of the design process has been shown on the website. The about page contains the general information about my idea – the “customisable pouch”.… Continue

Link: http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~jtan2093/content/2008/deco2013/prototype/interface.html


I kind of incorporated the "process storyboard" into the website, but I'll add the documentation here a bit later.

I'm still "researching" on the concept of generative design in aliens. Rob said that to make my pouches more interesting, have different aspects like creating monsters. Of course I would want something like "Spore" to have the user be able to do whatever he or she wants and be ultimately a pouch. But the reality in the cost and the fact that each design will need different 'parts'; it's difficult to do. It would be good if I was making a tshirt; just get the rendered design at the end. I've been… Continue

Okay, I just spent the whole day trying to make the prototype in Flash. But I'm used to the good old fashioned Macromedia Flash. Now with Actionscript 3 + my half lost knowledge of Flash, I've come up with a half done prototype because I don't know where to go on from there.

Then I thought, why Flash, when I could of done it in a website? Well I wanted it to be less web "pages" with everything in one 'application'. Now I'm thinking I could use Javascript, but I don't know how to use Javascript.… Continue

So we had to research in emergence...

The closest idea I managed to come across that I can use in my application was this simple Java application (http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/emergence/make-your-own.html) based upon Conway's Game of Life.

Though in conway's game of life, it has no input; this application allowed users to click on a few dots, and based on a few presets of defined rules, randomized dots will appear and disappear.

I like how everything is defined simply as binary (0 and 1)… Continue