A touch activated experience created with the Unity Game Engine.
This interactive installation explores the poetics of randomness and the liminal space between intentionality and observation, seeing and hearing, touching and listening. A large format touch sensitive display (58.76" W x 34.15" H x 3.93" D) shows algorithmically generated rain drops randomly hitting and splashing on the display surface, with drips following paths dictated by gravity, surface tension and viewer interaction. The viewer can watch and listen to the soft barely audible tapping sound of the droplets enhanced by a sound score composed by Emmy award winning composer/sound designer Serge Ossorguine. The viewer can actively reach out, touch and playfully drag a water droplet. This intervention changes where the droplets form and encourages a playful interaction that transforms the actualization of this work. The Poetics of Mass Weighted Median Diameter is code dependent. Using particle systems raindrops are algorithmically generated and further interaction is programmed in C# coupled to the infrared 10 point multi-touch interface. Created with the Unity Game Engine.