Scale...

Big sheep, little sheep! Same size sheep!

Scale and perspective is going to be critical. This is something I hadn't factored in yet.

Phew! The foreground now joins up.

I now have a working foreground using a single image that repeats and continuously joins up.

I have decided to use a 250px x 600px image size for each panel, this should allow for additional content within each area as the original 232x600 format was a little too restrictive as it was too narrow. In order to achive this I have reduced the panels to 5 from 6, final image combined is 1250 x 600.

Additional foreground content will be layered over the top of these images but the first step was to make it join up initially with a single image. I will then introduce a series of hills, mounds and drumlins over these before any foreground detail can be added, which may include, walls, stiles, hedges, people, sheep! etc.

The frustrations of joining images

It's not quiet jelling at the moment, the difficulty is the creation of seamless joins between the foreground and creating a realistic join for the midground and background.
Warping works up to a point but cannot be used to create a realistic representation of a hill or mountain, it's main use will be in skewing the image to fit the parameters within each section.



I have also increased the size of each panel to 232px x 600px which will either create an image of 1160px x 600px with 5 panels in use or 1355px x 600px if 6 panels are created. The difficulty is knowing how the final series will be displayed depending on the monitor size and resolution.
The last project Ubiquitous Interactivity at the Cornerhouse used a 42in screen set at 1360x768 so consideration for the size of each panel image and the overall screen coverage will have to be taken into account.

Warping refined

With each section image now at 195px x 600px is this too small? The overall image length is 1160px as there are now 6 images that build up the image, if this gets reduced to 5 there will be more scope to put more content within each section as it will be wider but less combinations for the overall effect.

The UCLAN student/staff card values

Every staff and student card has a 16 digit number similar to credit cards, the one problem is that every card has the following at the beginning 20107101, then this is followed by a random sequence of 6 numbers, which is then topped off usually with a 1.

So, the sequence goes something like this...

2010710094121917

array object 0 = 2
array object 1 = 0
array object 2 = 1
array object 3 = 0
array object 4 = 7
array object 5 = 1
array object 6 = 0
array object 7 = 0
array object 8 = 9 *
array object 9 = 4 *
array object 10 = 1 *
array object 11 = 2 *
array object 12 = 1*
array object 13 = 9 *
array object 14 = 1
array object 15 = 7

* In order to generate a unique image based on the card values I intend to use 6 numbers from object 8-13, in the example above I will use 941219 as the sample value.

Myriorama background image

I've been pondering on how to get the backgrounds to join up for the myriorama, this is a test image using the same image of a field and warping the structure in photoshop cs3, then using guides in order to keep the structure for the joins.


This should then become the canvas for each image to be built upon.