Interaction among Apparel, People, and Mirrors

During the reading, I spent 2 days to visit the museums in Edinburgh, and this really gave me a lot inspiration. Here are some interesting methods they use for people interact with apparel.

Mirror, Drawing and Dresses(From Museum of Edinburgh)

To display the old fashion of Edinburgh, the museum show some real clothes besides some drawing above the closet. The mirror nearby gives the visitor an impulse to try them on.

An Rotating Closet(from National Museum of Scotland)

This is really cool! By rotating different level of the closet, visitor can make the role drawing on the cylinder change their apparel. It's funny and easy, children love it. I think it's also useful for my project.

Hair Ball, an Animation Using Processing

Hair Ball, by Edward Porten,openprocessing.org

This is the cute Hair Ball I introduced in class, which really showed me the possibility of doing something interesting with coding. I'm glad to show its detail via the link http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=12399.

There's something you have to pay attention to. To play this animation, which we call Sketch, the browser may ask you to install the Java Environment. Just follow the website's install steps. If anything annoying happend, just feel free to leave me a message.

Lightweight Online Animation Using HTML5

These days, I am thinking about some easier ways to post visualization animations onto the internet. A lot of friends, like Mhairi and Brian, gave me some new ideas of on-line data visualization and 2D animation, which reminds me of a new technique named HTML5 Canvas.
The most wonderful thing of Canvas is that, it allow us to visit the animation, or an interactive system on-line directly, without loading any flash, video or drive, which means it's really fast. There are many great exploration in this technique nowadays, you can see some of them via canvasdemos.
As you may see, this tool supports 2D and 3D animations. One demo, pirates-love-daisies, deeply inspired me.

This small game tells a funny story of the pirates through its game logic. The characters there and the animation are as attractive as we see in Flash games, but you dont have to wait for your browser to download a large flash file. Just like a comment below, I am exited to "see a big future of canvas" (ROAdmin's comment) through this little game.
Unfortunately, HTML5 Canvas is still not very widely supported by browsers, only some new version ones , like IE9, Safari 1.3+, Firefox 1.5+, can run these demos.