Description

This project characterizes-itself by the construction and development of a three dimensional and virtual object, that acts like a sensible and sensory organism to the pertinent information of a city, in this case, the Porto city. From the moment that the virtual object became reactive and with an independent behaviour, not lineally programmed, it was by us elevated to the statute of a being. Therefore, this being is modelled in real time, through the interpretation of the information collected by some of the computerized nets of the city, the data is kept in a determined number of variables regarding the aforesaid information. Colony possesses an interface that promotes the participation of users. The degree of interaction is small, but provides the user to see all angles of Colony.

Colony

Filipe Jensen, Nuno Costa

All the variables that build and control the behaviour of the being, were extracted from the internet, for instance the temperature, the quality of the air, even the city traffic cameras were captured. Visually all this information is converted in a three dimensional content, with an oval nucleus, of which several tentacles are sprout. The interactive interface consists of a frame with a ball in the center set by two elastics that are situated in the average of the frame. Through the manipulation of the ball, entirely intuitive, is possible perform actions of zoom and rotation to the viewing of the being. Colony is a being that feeds of the own life of the city, manifesting itself positive or negatively according to the metropolitan health of Porto city.