tracking pressure points intimate

the paint has been carried on from the formal handshake to the intimate.
where the fingers touch now there is a much more complex shape and structure showing from the colour combinations

this experiment helps us ulitise where the hand connects so we can base our model on the overlapping paint points for structuring the pressure sensors.

tracking pressure points

One hand is painted with yellow paint
the other hand is painted with red.

Two handshakes are chosen to use,
a formal handshake and an informal handshake.













First, the formal handshake is used.
where the wet paint touches the other hand,
it leaves a mark on the unpainted skin,
or mixes colours with the painted other hand.

inspiring images

project three ideas

handshakes.
the idea jason and i have is to utilise different forms of handshakes to set off electical connections.

IDEA. RING
each person will have a ring or two which they wear on specific fingers.
when the two shake hands, the connections will complete a circuit setting off a pattern of light glowing in different patterns to show their touch.
this light display could be quite beautiful if for example we use red LEDs.
for a companionship joint, the red can represent friendship and a bond. glowing, pulsing as the rings are connected.
certain other connections could be different colours for a more formal shake.

we will explore into very formal hand connections to the emotional bond formed and how it can be expressed.

project three

group project.
jason and i have decided to go in a group together to colab our brilliant ideas into a product worthwhile yet emotive.
finger sensitivity to touch.
with human interaction is something you overlook when thinking about LEDs and components. i want to use the LEDs to interact with the user by emotion.
the hands and how it can join with other hands is a base to start from.
By different hand movement and connections, different sensors and nerve feelings are produced.

i want to explore into how the hand and fingers simbolise emotions by expression.
typically the fingers are used for purposes such as holding rings. rings express emotion of love, family heritage and general interest and outward taste.
Certain fingers are associated with marriage where others are connected to family heirlooms.
typically speaking.
jewels and metal show wealth and reflect light in their glory to shine out.
this is where LEDs can represent the jewels and crystals.


Emotion is associated with mood, temperament, personality and disposition, and motivation. The English word 'emotion' is derived from the French word émouvoir. This is based on the Latin emovere, where e- (variant of ex-) means 'out' and movere means 'move'.^[1] The related term "motivation" is also derived from movere.
rings connecting hand shakes can set off sensors and nerves.

original sketches

skeleton - disco tutu slides

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skeleton dress dark photo shoot

getting the dress on and turned on.. you can see the shape the wire has been formed like a corsit to the body. the way the geometry shows the figure which hopefully is shown when in the dark and lit up by the LEDs.

dancing, jumping up and down (which kind of broke a connection) meaning that i had to secure the battery more than what it was originally.

first and second cluster being turned on by the light sensor. hence the top and one side is not turned on yet
series of photographs with different exposure levels.
the coloured lights work well with this dress i think. the last picture you can really see the amount it is emitting onto the wire and the texture it is making by it.

skeleton dress in progress

the dress was actually tougher than i expected it to be. which always happens when you are trying to solder together thousands of LEDS. i ended up setting up the dress to have 6 connections to the arduino and 90 white LEDs but i ran out of time to put them all on.
It would have been nice to have the whole dress covered in clusters so that when the light is turned on it shows up a pattern.
there is always room for improvement however.
Also becuase the dress was made from wire, i had to be carefull it did not get short circuited.
by spray painting/coating the frame inside and out with laquer, it stopped any conduction.
almost like a plastic wrapping really which works if you do not scratch the paint off by mistake.
Another thing. it takes about 5 minutes to get out of the dress and in becuase the wire pricks your clothing and hooks onto it.
haha. but it fit me which was lucky.
i took some slow exposure photos in the dark with the dress on to replicate what a performance would look like from a watcher.
The photos turned out quite nicely really with the light actully lighting up small sections of the dress and its wire geometry.
pulling a rather extreme face in annoyance to getting the dress on. haha

skeleton idea

with the skeleton dress, becuase the accelerometre didn't come on time due to silly public holidays in both countries, i decided to just concentrate on using another technique that would react to movement.
by using mercury switches, the LEDs could be controlled by movement as an on and off switch.
i applied this to coloured LEDs at the bottom of the dress.
the multi-coloured LEDs when turned off an on pulse at different speeds.
i thought this would be nice to have as an entertaining factor.
with dance perfromances usually on a stage it is dark with angled lighting.
the coloured leds would emit the light on particular parts of the wire showing off the skeleton structure.
the user wearing the costume i would imagine to be either white body painted or to be wearing black clothing underneath.
In the dark, the LEDs situated on the bodess of the dress are white lights. They are controlled by a light sensor.
there is four groups of LEDs on the bodess, one, two, three(+ four) are controlled in 3 groups from the arduino. The arduino sensors how much light is being let into its control and sends the information to switch on the LEDS.
i have three different settings for the lights.
the idea is, that when the coloured LEDs switch on and off from the mercury switch being tilted the lights will get brighter and duller depending on which lights are switched on an off.
There is two mercury switches each controlling three sets of 5 LEDs that are different colours.
the light sensor reads the first lot being turned on and therefore turns on the middle section of white LEDs. the second light value switches the side group and same for the 3rd group and the other side of the white LEDs.
in performance, the light values would be changing as the user tilted back and forward to set off a random light response from above.
The accelerometre could have done the same job all in one go with computer coding which was a shame it arrived the day after the project was due.
i might intergrate this into the project later however as i think it would benefit the dress to more extent.

the skeleton dress

the final design i chose to construct was a dress made from wire.
the idea was to take the idea of the skeleton figure but translate it to something more viable.
i really didn't have the resources and the time by myself to make the dress i was hoping on with the water filter.

this dress i brainstormed ideas of having an accelerometre attached to the dress.
by measuring the movement as a performance the LEDs would be controlled through the arduino to express patterns of light once set off.

multi circuit system including 3 LEDs in series
and 4 lots of 3 in parallel.

LED tests

process of production.
preparation for LEDs and light tests in series and parallel circuits.

project two ideas

this project i was thinking about making a dress which reacts to heat and movement.
i want to encorporate the body through the idea of a skeletal frame and how the structure is used as a form.

using basic techniques, the aurduino will react to an external imput to control the light patterns.

idea one...
water fountain.
the idea actually came to me before i uploaded the water dress pictured below.
i would really like to make a dress where the heat fluxuates in parts of the dress from water heated to cooling down. the idea that 'somehow' i could congure up a fuguration where water pumps used from gardens could be applied to the design of the dress. as you would say an hourglass figure.
there would be tubes stemming from the top of the structure around the bust intertwined between a wire frame to the bottom and looping back up to the top which filtered water through a semi-heating system at the bottom of the dress.
a basic element pulled from a kettle or old stove top.
as the water travels down it is cooling down and when it reaches the top again it is hot.
the temperature sensor would be set on top of some of these tubes which between them run a strip of leds which would turn on and off in a 'mexican wave' type fade as the water cooled back down to the bottom.
i could imagine that in the dark this dress would look quite spectacular also the water reflecting back in the tube from the leds.