Potential Sources of Chance
Slit-scanning video
Motion detection
Crowd proximity (I'd need stereo or a kinect)
Filesystem
Twitter / other social media with a public API / graph
I've been thinking about dataviz and about project with really long experiences for the audience. Often I'm getting caught up on the "how do you make it different from existing projects".
I liked the Filesystem idea because it's both, and people would indirectly affect it, but it doesn't really make for much of an experience that can be seen by others. It's more like a screensaver, something that might be cool but would be privately appreciated. I do think it would be funny though to have a Filesystem TreeMapper that gave no useful feedback about the filesystem itself.
It seems there are quite a few libraries for treemaps. The real trick would be making the resulting images chance-based but still retain the compelling aspects though...
Motion detection could get interesting. If so, I'd use oF or Processing, whichever had a more out of the box setup. I remember Thomas showed me a few libraries he used, I'll have to find them in my Github "starred" projects.
I'll probably save the kinect until I've got a little less pressure and a little more time.
There's been a lot of interesting stuff done already with slit-scan, so it might be more difficult to innovate
Forget social media. I'm embarrassed I even brought it up.
edit:
TreeMaps might take longer than I can afford to grok. Might be shelving the filesystem idea.
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