User Scenario

This is the initial idea of the project......
- filming people walking from the roof of my apt building (5 min/day)
- track paths of people walking with computer vision
- sew paths into a patch of fabric
- patches sewn together make-up a quilt of patterns

Prototype 1

Here's a snippet of some of the video I have collected for my project, and the corresponding output of "pedestrian paths"...

Resolution Quilt

This is a similar idea where resolution of a dingle place is investigated. Each line represents a different view of resolution. As you move across the quilt from left to right you increase the resoluion from low to high.
Each square is expanded out into the next line to the right.

For example....the quilt might represent a personal home on the coast of virginia.
So beginning from left to right the view starts out with the whole eastern coastline......then transitions all the way down to the border between the beach and the ocean at the persons' home in virginia.

The quilt works the same as Google Maps.....zooming in from a large scale (low res) to the neighborhood scale (high res) in similar increments. Each click in is a new line.

Precedents & Inspirations

1.Ghada Amer: "Love Has No End"
Brooklyn Museum of Art




2.Aids Quilt:
www.aidsquilt.com




3.Knitting Circles:
www.thepointnyc.com




4.The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Christine and Margaret Wertheim
REEF




5.Daina Taimina - Mathematician Cornell University
Hyperbolic Math




6.Benoit Mandelbrot - Mathematician - Fractal Geometry
SEED Magazine Interview



"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." – B.Mandelbrot, introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature



7. Robert Lang - Computational Origami
langorigami.com



8. Lisbeth G. Clemons - Penrose Quilt
penrose quilt



9.Google Images
Google Images




10. Electric Sheep
electric sheep




11. The White Glove Project
white glove tracking




12. Open Source Embroidery
HTML patches




13. Embroidered Graffiti
Public Embroidery




14. Text Message Stitching
Stitching Together




15. Processing Quilt
Processing/Quilt




16. Lace Fence
Lace Fence


17. Kate Pemberton
electronic embroidery

Initial Proposal

Here's images of my final proposal....

Embroidery of the Mapped Image

Nina Katchadourian




Lou Cabeen




Sonia Rapaport -Shoe Field
Interactive installation about shoes. Data output resembled a woven Navajo blanket.
She wanted to see if "qualitative data would reveal quantitave information about people."