INTERACTIVE IDENTITY

TASK
Design an interactive that navigates your identity. Include five objects that represent aspects of your personality. Use FlashActionScript/3DStudioMax.

IDEAS?....
Initially my idea was to produce a 3Dimensional version of my own sketchpad, it would navigate through my University and work, pretty much the same way as a DVD menu for a film. But after my presentation, following advice from Jools that my University work doesn't best summarise my identity as a whole so I decided to introduce elements of my OVERALL identity.
...which brought me to my second idea which will be an interactive, 3dimensional pop up book that tells a story about the stages of my life. I thought this would best project my identity as the user could navigate my past all the way up to my present. Starting from my parents getting together(but not the act, as that would be disturbing!) up to my hopes for the future.

RESEARCH...
I imagine my pop up book to appear like a collage, setting a scene, filled with popular cultural items of the decade.... IE; I was born in the 80's, so in that scene I'd have toy's, fashion and music that represent that time....
After searching I found a book by Marion Bataille called 'ABC3D'. This book goes through the alphabet in pop up style, its really clever, well designed and love the way it seems to have turned optical illusion into physical illusion.. check it out below...

ABC3D - MARION BATAILLE - RELEASED OCTOBER 2008

I also like the work produced by student Colette Fusansan. Her pop up work best depicts what feel I'd like to create for my own project.

http://youtube.com/user/fusansan

T.

I wanna take you to a club where people wii on each other...

Alternative interaction methods

Ive been playing the wii recently, 'working' my way through ResidentEvil : The Umbrella Chronicles. Its a cool game, it goes through the first four games of the Resident Evil series, but in the style of a lightgun game using the wiiRemote pointer/cursor. I also purchased a new laptop and wondered if I could control my interactive using the wiRemote as a cursor so 'googled' "wii for PC". I found that you could operate the cursor using the tilt functions of the wiiRemote (tilt back for up, twist left for the cursor to move left). This taken away from the point of me wanting to use the wiiRemote pointer.
The wiiRemote has an infrared tracking camera. The wiiSensor bar emits infrared light which tells the wiiRemote where its pointing. I thought that the sensor bar tells the wii and the wii tells the remote where its pointing, this isn't the case as no information passes down the sensor bars connection to the wii, all that connection is for is to power the infrared LEDs. I found that you could even use two candles as a sensor bar and the wii would work exactly the same.FACT.(this course is slowly turning me into a nerd....also...FACT.)

MyWiimoteControlsMyLaptop!!...

After looking on various forums I found that I'd have to make a sensor bar for my laptop with the USB powering the infrared LEDs. Ive not had an electronics 'project' since school, but am kinda aware of what resistors are... so just went for it. I followed instructions on; http://www.modpulse.com/articles/console-mods/usb-wii-sensor-bar/
I brought all the bits from Maplins and got soldering!...
The WiiRemote is connected to the pc by Bluetooth, so had to sync those.
...and it works!

I found.. theres a guy called Johnny Chung Lee hes a student at Carnegie Mellon University and has developed various projects using the wiiRemotes infrared capabilities. I'd urge you to check his Blog - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

T.