Enter
The participant crosses from festival space into a darker responsive chamber.
CONCEPT_BRIEF.TXT
Love Burn scale // responsive projection // temporary architecture
A room that sees without becoming a surveillance product.
The Responsive Dome Environment is a geodesic projection space where people inside the structure alter a shared visual field through movement, density, proximity, and disturbances in wireless signals.
The artwork is not a dashboard of measurements. Sensor data becomes artistic material: wakes, constellations, pressure fields, tides, ghosted silhouettes, or organisms that appear to notice the room noticing them.
THE IMPORTANT BOUNDARY: presence and movement are plausible early inputs.
Fine-grained breathing or heartbeat inference belongs in the experimental layer and must not be treated as a guaranteed festival feature.
PARTICIPANT_PATH.SYS
What happens to a human entering the work
Disturb
Movement, position, density, and wireless reflections alter the sensed environment.
Translate
Software converts imperfect signals into stable artistic behaviors rather than raw data.
Project
Four visual channels wrap the interpretation across the dome interior.
Discover
The participant learns the room by playing with it, not by reading instructions.
DOME_GEOMETRY.NFO
Four-projector concept
TOP VIEW // CONCEPTUAL
[ PROJECTOR 1 ]
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[ P4 ] -------- ( DOME ) -------- [ P2 ]
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[ PROJECTOR 3 ]
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| overlapping projection zones |
| edge blend / warp calibration |
| central sensing + render computer |
| modular festival structure |
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Participant movement becomes shared visual pressure inside the shell.
| SUBSYSTEM | FUNCTION | DESIGN PRESSURE |
|---|---|---|
| Projectors × 4 | Cover the dome interior with overlapping visual fields. | Brightness, throw distance, heat, mounting, and edge blending. |
| Warp / blend layer | Corrects geometry and prevents each projector from looking like a separate rectangle. | Calibration time and maintaining alignment after transport. |
| Render computer | Generates visuals and receives sensor interpretation. | Low latency, multiple outputs, and reliable restart behavior. |
| Dome skin | Acts as both architecture and projection surface. | Opacity, texture, seams, wind, flame-retardant requirements, and packability. |
SENSING_LAYERS.DIR
Inputs, from reliable to experimental
Motion and occupancy
Depth cameras, radar, thermal arrays, or other presence sensors can create stable zones, tracks, density, and group movement.
Wi-Fi channel disturbance
Changes in wireless propagation can become an abstract signal layer showing that bodies are altering the room without producing a literal camera image.
Proximity and interaction
Floor zones, touch points, wearable tokens, or object movement can create more deliberate participant control.
Breath-like rhythm experiments
Research-oriented sensing may explore slow periodic motion, but the artwork must remain compelling even when this input is noisy or unavailable.
VISUAL_BEHAVIORS.DIR
Possible scene families
Human constellations
Each presence becomes a star-like disturbance connected by shifting relationships rather than exact outlines.
Signal weather
Movement creates fronts, pressure, static, auroras, and electrical storms across the dome.
Shared organism
The room behaves like one creature whose circulation, breathing, and attention are assembled from everyone inside.
Memory trails
Paths remain briefly after bodies move, allowing the dome to remember where the gathering has been.
PROTOTYPE_PHASES.CSV
Build the room before building the spectacle
| PHASE | BUILD | DECISION GATE |
|---|---|---|
| 01 // Desktop | One sensor input driving one visual scene on a monitor. | Does the translation feel alive rather than technical? |
| 02 // Single wall | One projector on a curved or faceted test surface. | Can the visual language survive distortion and scale? |
| 03 // Mini dome | Small structure with two projectors and limited sensing. | Can calibration, sensing, and visual response remain stable together? |
| 04 // Four channels | Full projection geometry without festival deployment. | Does the room feel continuous rather than four screens? |
| 05 // Field build | Modular structure, transport, setup, safety, and public interaction. | Can it survive people, weather, dust, heat, and volunteer operation? |
REALITY_CHECKS.NFO
What can eat this project alive
Brightness
A compelling visual in a dark lab may become gray soup in a festival structure with ambient light.
Calibration
Four-projector warping and edge blending can consume setup time and drift after the structure moves.
Sensor mythology
The project must not depend on laboratory-grade claims surviving a crowded, reflective, moving environment.
Human throughput
The room needs entrance, exit, accessibility, capacity, consent, and operator behavior designed as carefully as the visuals.
CONCEPT_STATUS.LOG
curator@dome:~$ inspect --concept
[STRUCTURE] geodesic festival form selected
[PROJECTION] four-channel architecture defined
[INPUT] movement and presence are the stable first layer
[WIFI SENSING] retained as experimental artistic input
[VISUALS] human constellation, signal weather, shared organism, and memory-trail families identified
[NEXT] build one convincing sensor-to-visual loop before purchasing the entire sky_
[STRUCTURE] geodesic festival form selected
[PROJECTION] four-channel architecture defined
[INPUT] movement and presence are the stable first layer
[WIFI SENSING] retained as experimental artistic input
[VISUALS] human constellation, signal weather, shared organism, and memory-trail families identified
[NEXT] build one convincing sensor-to-visual loop before purchasing the entire sky_
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