USER EXPERIENCE: You're in the observation station. Walk up to a wooden ship's wheel mounted on a rough hewn barrel, before a shingled porthole. Spin the wheel round and round, to see the animated inhabitants move through their continuously flowing world, visible within the porthole.
MATERIALS & COMPONENTS: Hand drawn animation, programming in Processing, rotary encoder, Arduino, pre-compositing animated elements in After Effects, hidden projection, audio, CNC'd layered wooden ship's wheel, hand-built barrel and porthole. Barrel, wheel and porthole built in collaboration with Zeven Rodriguez.