O'Sullivision,
1996
Project Description:
This
is a web application where one person creates a collage using color, circles,
squares, lines and text. As an individual makes their collage on the left side
of the screen, the most similar collage of previous users shows up on the right
side of the screen. As a user begins
to intuit the matching mechanism, they alter their drawing deliberately to place
their drawing near another person. They
then begin to navigate through the vast space of all possible drawings by making
one of their own.
This
is an interface experiment accommodating applications where many individuals
are making contributions. It tries
to make the act of contributing a drawing also an act of navigation towards
other people.
In
addition to standard browser functions like bookmarks, histories and searches,
the application also allows people to see who has seen (matched) their collage,
and to send email.
Technical Notes:
This was created with Beta Shockwave software and Perl/CGI programming using
Unix DBMs.