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Technical Statement The interactive multimedia installation, Ten Worlds: Garden of Life, consists of a live flowerpot embedded with five temperature sensors on a pedestal, a water spray bottle triggered with a push switch and a temperature sensor, a micro-controller, a video projection system controlled by Macromedia Director MX 2004 in a computer, and a set of stereo speakers. When a viewer enters the dark installation space, s/he sees the flowerpot on a pedestal in the center of the space. If the viewer grabs the water sprayer, the person’s body temperature is checked through the sensor. Then if s/he sprays the flowers, the five sensors assess the temperature around the surface of the flowers. This information goes to a micro-controller.
Behind the scenes, once the micro-controller detects a change in value, it uses this information to do a mathematical calculation. This formula uses the viewer’s body temperature and the time the person watered the flowers to determine the value that is then sent to a computer controlled by Macromedia Director MX 2004. Next, the software selects a video clip
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on the calculation received from the micro-controller. Finally, the clip fades in on the front wall of the space. Each clip is around 30 seconds. When it finishes, it fades out to black and waits until the viewer sprays the flowers to show another clip.
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