Sources for Interactive poster:
Cartoon Cavern (main picture): http://forcemocha.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/forcemocha-caves8-1920×1200.jpg
Zombie cartoon hand button: http://www.istockphoto.com/vector/scary-pointing-thumbs-up-monster-hands-10612263?st=d381c32
All sound effects: http://soundbible.com/
‘Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science’ (BBC). He was born on the 23rd of June, 1912 in London, and committed suicide on the 7th of June, 1954.
During the war ‘Here he played a vital role in deciphering the messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine, which provided vital intelligence for the Allies. He took the lead in a team that designed a machine known as a bombe that successfully decoded German messages. He became a well-known and rather eccentric figure at Bletchley’ (BBC).
The Bombe deciphered the messages by creating an algorithm that ticks its way through many permutations in a cycle of about 10 minutes. ‘Instead of looking for the correct permutation, what they did was find out that if you get the machine to stop when it had 25 out of 26 incorrect permutations that was a good result. And when it had 26 out of 26 negative permutations it would just carry on until it found a wire that was not live’ (Chacksfield, M. 2014).
Due to his legacy, there has even been a movie based on his work; ‘the Imitation Game, a new movie that brilliantly dramatises the code-breaking events that helped end World War II’ (Chacksfield, M. 2014).
References:
BBC. Alan Turing. Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing [Accessed 18 Nov 2014].
Chacksfield, M. (15/11/204). Alan Turing, the Enigma code and the power of negative information. Available: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/alan-turing-the-enigma-code-and-the-power-of-negative-information-1273190. [Accessed 18 Nov 2014].
Expanding on my TV idea, I’ve decided to tailor my interactive poster more towards the ‘undead’ theme. Therefore, I’ve decided to make a graveyard theme. The buttons will be shown as the object or person that I’ve researched and he triggered animation will move the entire picture and the button upwards and off the screen. The text will supposely be ‘underground’ and this will be the same for all buttons.
I came across this design after Google imaging ‘Interactive Posters’ and came up with the idea that each lamp can represent each information point for what I’ve researched for my blog. However, I’ve expanded on the idea and decided to make different channels on a television to represent my research, where the buttons on a remote that will be on screen will be the interactive point for the viewer. The buttons will trigger the corresponding research which will appear on the TV. This is my first idea.
April Greiman is an artist who was born in 1948. She uses a hybrid approach to her work, mashing up colours and pictures together. Her art ‘have been influential worldwide over the last 30 years’ (aprilgreiman.com).
Greiman ‘was a designer in New York City in the mid-1970s’ (AIGA, 1998). She began showing interest in landscaping from seeing the view in which a desert had to offer. She was also one of the first people to have started creating art using advanced technology. As ‘an avid fan of tools and technologies since childhood, Greiman quickly established herself as a pioneer of digital communications design’ (AIGA, 1998).
References:
aprilgreiman.com. Available from: http://aprilgreiman.com/ [Accessed 29 Oct 2014].
AIGA, 1998. APRIL GREIMAN. Available from: http://www.aiga.org/medalist-aprilgreiman/ [Accessed 29 Oct 2014].
Johannes Gutenberg was a German inventor who developed a method of printing back in the 15th century called the movable type. ‘He printed the first book via movable type, the Forty-Two-Line Bible’ (The Biography, 2014).
His invention having been completed in 1455; ‘knowledge up to that point was property to only a small number of people’ (Gates, J. 2014). This was because in order to produce books, someone would have to copy it out word for word. Gutenberg was a merchant, and therefore ‘saw this as a tremendous money making opportunity’ (Frauenfelder, M. 2014).
However, printing originated from china back in the 9th century. ‘Chinese craftsmen had developed a way to mass produce books by carving words and pictures into wooden blocks, inking them, and then pressing paper onto the blocks’ (Ebrey, P. 1993). But no one had every used it for manufacturing purposes. With this in mind, it is questionable to who truly invented the movable type.
References:
The Biography, 2014. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/johannes-gutenberg-9323828 [Accessed 14 Oct 2014].
Gates, S. 2014. University of Maryland [Video]. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/johannes-gutenberg-9323828 [Accessed 14 Oct 2014].
Frauenfelder, M. 2014. Editor-in-Chief [Video]. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/johannes-gutenberg-9323828 [Accessed 14 Oct 2014].
Ebrey, P. 1993. The song dynasty in China. Available from: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/tech/printing.htm [Accessed 14 Oct 2014].
Invented by Robert Hooke in 1667. The string telephone is able to convey sounds over an extended piece of wire by using the vibrations caused.
Invented by William George Horner in 1834, the Zoetrope is an animation device which produces the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. The name Zoetrope is Greek for ‘life’ and ‘turning’.
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