Monday 1 February 2016

Week 1



Arcadia3D is about taking the underappreciated genre of one dimensional games and giving them some oomph by displaying them in an alternative way.
We will be building an LED Infinity illusion mirror, that is made of two mirrors, one of which is a one-way mirror and the other is a fully reflective one. Multi-coloured LED strips are placed between and are reflected in a recursive manner creating the illusion of depth.
Prototyping for the games will be done processing so that we can get some immediate visual feedback on how they function through using arrays of cells that will be representative of the LEDs, and so as we become more confident with the games progress we would transfer it onto the Arduino IDE or alternatively we could have processing communicate with the Arduino through ports.
The gameplay will be visualized in this illusionary 3D space. Details such as colour change or disappearance/reappearance of light components will be easily controlled through Arduino interface. For example, different teams in a game can have corresponding colours of LEDs. This effect will really build a bridge between the game and the player.

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