Tuesday 8 November 2011

assignment 2. week 01

Cyrsis Wars environment being used: Outpost
Analysis of a moving entity: velocity graphing

The video demonstrates the analysis of the ball. The flowgraph system evaluates the balls average velocity, and then displays it through both the hud and a bar graph inserted into the level. The hud shows the precise value, while the bar graph (red, over the antena) shows a rounded value.

Chosen Pachube feed: Creating Space with Light.
https://pachube.com/feeds/35501

SWOT analysis:

Strengths:
The description at the top of the page allows a reader to get a really good understanding of the persons chosen concept, which in turn explains a lot about what the feed should be doing.

Weaknesses: The feeds are continuously frozen, which doesn't allow for any analysis of it. Also, the three feeds on the page aren't labelled very well, which means you can't really understand what the data coming off them represents.

Opportunities:
A system like the one the creator talks about presents the opportunity for a vast social space, and very interesting room use dynamic. The more people in the room, the brighter and more open it becomes, and as the floor is lit up, more opportunity for social interaction is created.

Threats:
The one thing that seems to stand out to me is that if there are initially no people in the room, it will be completely dark, which seems like it would work towards stopping people from venturing inside it, which wouldn't allow any chance for it brightening up, rendering the whole idea a bit useless unless it is a place guarranteed to be populated.

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