Interactive digital Petri dish for combinative organism
LI Jin 李晋 CHEN Suwan 陈苏皖 ZHANG Shiman 张诗曼
Org-Org is a reconfigured organic bio-interaction device in which participants touch the tentacles and interact with them to create a projection of a visual digital petri dish. The optical ribbon pipeline is a tentacle that can be ‘injected’ with different functional influences by touching and shaking the six tentacles that extend from the ‘Petri dish’, accompanied by corresponding audio feedback. A network of light bands connects the participant to the digital petri dish, with the network of light bands referring to the functional organization network and the circular projection representing the digital ‘Petri dish’. The participant can choose to observe this natural process or to play the role of an external influence in the petri dish, participating in the natural process of the creation of a new organism or superorganism, immersing themselves in the human and natural external forces that bring about the organism, the superorganism, and the environment.
Super Organism
Superorganism is assembled by individual organisms. That acts like an individual as a whole. Every member of the superorganism are highly specialized with different function and cooperates by their social instinct. But each can‘t leave the superorganism and subsist for a long.
Superorganisms tend to exhibit homeostasis, power-law scaling, persistent disequilibrium, and emergent behavior. We extend the scope of superorganisms to biomes (the biosphere is the largest superorganism) and strip away the essence of organisms and nature, simplifying successes, relationships and ground rules.
Interaction Behaviour
ICONS
Indicative signs for external forces.
Digital vibration sensor
Simulation of intrusion behaviour and a break in the physiology of organisms, vibration sensors were therefore selected to influence their duration and frequency.
Digital touch sensor
Only the self-healing module uses a touch sensor. Only this module is positively influenced and simulates sunlight, like an interaction that passes the temperature on.
LED
As the audience shake or touch the balloon to trigger the sensors (vibration and touch sensors), the LED light bar beads gradually roll towards the digital Petri dish, ‘injecting’ the external force into the Petri dish.
The physical section itself is part of the set design. The physical section is placed in a fan shape, half surrounding the projection of the digital petri dishes, with a high and low staggered shapes for the viewer to navigate through.
External Force
Through an external interactive device, players can add six environmental factors to influence the electronic Petri dish.
A single external force can be applied by a single player to intervene at once or multiple external forces can be applied by multiple players at the same time.
Because of the natural forces of attraction and repulsion between particles, over time a more stable cluster will form, and when the cluster density reaches a certain level a purple range will appear underneath it, marking the formation of a more stable cluster.
Each cluster will have a different shape, but there will be a few stable structures that occur more frequently.
Of course, due to external forces and the natural rules of survival between particles, such clusters do not last forever and are constantly changing.
Ground Rules
The four basic particles COMPETE / REPRODUCE / SYMBIOSIS / PRODUCE have an attractive and mutually exclusive relationship, and generate OFFSPRING by reproduction, and then differentiate into four basic particles after maturity or ELIMINATE that can eliminate the particles in the surrounding range, to control the number of particles stable.
When the number of particles is less than a certain level, new offspring will be formed and the number of generations will be increased.
Ground Rules
When the particles gather to form a stable cluster structure, an equally spaced rhythmic pattern is generated according to the density of the particles.
The source of the basic syllables is an 8-bit scale to fit the conceptual style of the device.
Final Results
