Digital Seeds from a Virutal Core

CERN the game

November 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm | Posted in Senior Thesis | Leave a comment

http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/tools/accelerate.html

Not the most exciting game, nor educational, but it’s on a similar path.

Plus Exploratorium, one the the greatest places on Earth, offers a cool site about CERN. The site is extremely dated(about 8 years) but once again it’s a good start to education of the public.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/index.html

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October 29, 2008 at 11:04 pm | Posted in Senior Thesis | Leave a comment

Main Objective: To create an environment that promotes new experiences and formation of new ideas. It is a space where learning is acquired by self-actualization. This could lead to the understanding of the underlying scientific principle, but could just be a new experience.

The Space: Participants must go through a tunnel to give the effect that they are entering another world. A world that is microscopic. They then are free to explore the space. The first thing they see from the tunnel is a small video. Curiosity will lead them to look closer, which will trip the video to stop and show something different. The closer they look the harder it is to see all the states.

They will also see their image in a fun house kinda of way through mirrors. This will represents the many worlds theory and will present a different reality.

There will be sign-age to the left with a video that tells you more. Basically the space promotes the ideas that close observation will not lead to greater understanding of the whole and that their could be many different realities which are all equally real.

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October 29, 2008 at 10:45 pm | Posted in Senior Thesis | Leave a comment

Here is the floor plan:

The audience would go through a tunnel. At the end they would be greeted with a small video. The video would be an electron in multiple states (a blurry chaotic image.)

When the viewer tries to get close and observe the video, they break the laser and the video portrays a single state.

The viewer can continue to the left where they see a “house of mirror” effect and see themselves and the one state image.

At the end there is an option of signage to explain the experience, but is not necessary.

The Cube

October 26, 2008 at 11:05 pm | Posted in Senior Thesis | Leave a comment

I recently have come across a favorite video of mine…no surprise it’s by Jim Henson, but it is something a little different then what people usually know him by. Henson did a brilliant film called the cube in the late 60s. Its only 50 minutes, and I highly recommend it.

You can watch it on google video

This video brought me back to my main concept of creating a simply unique environment that can be taken many ways.

Further blogs will explain…..

Step One) Write blog posts
Step Two)….
Step Three) Commencement & and make lots of money

Visual Quantum Mechanics

October 20, 2008 at 4:57 pm | Posted in Senior Thesis | Leave a comment

http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/imawww/vqm/index.html

I found a really cool page that offers computer visualizations on really complicated math. I don’t fully understand the connection between the math and the visualization, but the images are beautiful and do offer some base for relationship of images and color to the complex world of quantum mechanics.

I’m going to further explore how to implement these images.