When began working on our project, the idea is to create an interactive environment. The project is to immerse a person into a world of movable particles that would move based on the person’s movements.
After doing some research, jit.phys patches were came across and the project were inspired by cycling74’s physics patch a day. After watched their videos and finally decided to create an interactive project set in a 3D physics world.
Initially, it was tried to create musical interactions with the audience by integrating region tracking into the patch. The region tracking would activate a bang, triggering the balls to move up into the air and create a sound.
While working on the project, a patch was came across that allowed it to use the pictslider to pick up an individual ball to move it around. From here, it was decided that to increase immersion into the environment by allowing people to move around in the world as a ball itself to interact with the other balls.
This patch was linked with collisions, having different collisions producing different sounds. Different sounds and different colours were experimented with, and in the end, producing our final product. When a ball touches the sides or hit another balls, it will produce a sound, that is similar to the Christmas chimes.
Looking at the different colours, the balls looked like Christmas ornaments. Combined with the production of sound, project was named Jingle Balls, based on the song, Jingle Bells.