For my second article report from the on-line journal I’ve been following, “Vector Magazine”, since there wasn’t a new issue, I went back to an older issue called, “Perception.” One project stood out in particular from this issue and that was “The Virtual Window Interactive” By Anne Friedberg and designed by Erik Loyer.
The main idea of this project was to show the development of visual stimuli over the past 8 centuries or so by allowing viewers of the project to create different viewing scenarios by bringing up a tab of different ways the scene can be altered. When a scene is created, say a family on the couch watching a T.V., keywords that are derived from the scene start scrolling across the bottom of the screen allowing you to click on them and learn more about the subject. There is also a timeline allowing you to narrow what era the modules are available from.
After interacting with this article, I honestly got hooked and couldn’t really stop experimenting with different ways of combining modules. For so long have I heard the terms used in the project but never really took the time to understand their meanings but this project allows you to do that while seeing them in a more relatable and personal scene created by you the viewer. An example of this might be the different aspect ratio’s that are possible when creating the size of the viewing window. After dragging it to a certain size, you can click on the aspect ratio keyword to see why it’s used and what it’s used for, two things I would have never really spent the time to learn.
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Max - glad you found a site to engage you and to immerse yourself in. The stimulus you found here is evident in your written style. Glad it was a pleasure. It prompts my interest in the site as well. In many ways you testify to the success of the project, as it solicited your engagement so. But here, while you do share the operations you engaged in and the fact that you learned, I don't hear you contending with any ideas at all - what was new, what did you learn? What about aspect ratios expanded your sense of things? Or is the site just a helpful glossary, like an interactive dictionary? Is this site like a tool that only requires a cursory response, however pleasurable the interaction?
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