Digital Public Space video

17May10

This video is to demonstrate the technical details of an experiment I am doing with flash media server.

The video shows how it all works but i didnt explain very well what everything is doing exactly so I will add some extra notes here.

When a user connects, flash media server grabs any information it can about the user, operating system version, flash player version, ping time, ip address etc. The colour you are represented by on screen is determined by the milliseconds in time on your computer clock as you arrive on the page. The value is converted to a colour value on the fly.

It sends your ip address to a separate website which sends the server information about your ip, location, longitude , latitude, partial post code and similar location data. (i dont keep this data )

Connections are automatically drawn between users who get close to each other. You can also click other users to force a connection.

When you are connected to another user you begin sharing data with each other as i mentioned above. When you receive data it generates the particle effects based on the data, and also the amount of particles generated is based on how much data you are receiving.

The black object that moves randomly is a black hole. At irregular intervals latches itself onto random users and sucks in the data(particles) and destroys them.