For our sketch, we decided to create an interactive flower that corresponds to our movements. Out project revolves around the camera detecting only the "white" on the screen by using subtractive elements. The more white there is, the larger the threshold, and thus the larger the flower grows. We have about 8 stages of flower growth, starting from a seed to the final stage of a full blown flower.
The user's energy had to be substantial enough to produce a full grown flower. This is a subliminal metaphor which means that a flower needs energy to grow, and the more it gets closer to a full blossomed stage, the more energy it requires. The flower in later stages is hard to sustain and is very sensitive, and that is why the final image of the blossom will decrement if not enough energy is applied to it.
This is the seedling stage of the flower:
This is the blossomed flower:
Research
Our project was derived from another theory: Sommerer/Mignonneau’s The Interactive Plant Growing (1992).Their installation is about the growth of plants. People can becomepart of the installation by touching the real plants and affect the
plants inside the screen.
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