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This post is part of a series we wrote after wrapping up the IRIS project<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design notes part 2: Physical impacting Digital<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Even before the lockdown measures, the design of the apartment was done digitally to help with rapid prototyping. The designs were then translated to physical form either through model-building techniques or 3D printing. Digitally modelling the physical box meant we could quickly estimate the proportions of the physical box, without having to fully build it first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The box was built in such a way that all the electronics could be fitted inside the box’ cavities without laying a finger on any material. Besides being a really rapid way of prototyping and conducting ‘form studies’ it also is a great way to save material otherwise spent on making different iterations of the box in real life. Sidenote: it’s a fun fact that prototyping in the physical realm often saves time when building a digital solution or game. In this case it were the digital tools that provided us with quick ways to test our assumptions and prototype ideas before spending time on the physical building process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Apartment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The setup was built \u2018peep-box\u2018 style in order to effectively use the Pepper\u2019s Ghost effect. In a Peppers Ghost setup, the character is best able to move along the surface of the screen: along a single 2-dimensional plane parallel to the peppers ghost’ horizontal axis. We can get some some faking of depth into the third dimension (the Z axis) because of everything except the digital character being in 3 dimensions. When scaling the digital content up or down, we are generating the illusion of movement on the Z axis and thus giving ourselves some play area within the given constraints of the physical box. While doing this, you will still have to take into account the occlusion by objects around the screen<\/a>. As this depends on the viewing angle of the player it takes some trial and error to make it work effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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