Work in Progress: The Upside Down

1. Assignment Prompt
2. Concept
3. Progress

Assignment Prompt

“Work in pairs. Due in 2 weeks.

Create and/or manipulate an image or video at the pixel level to create an alternative of the reality depicted in the source image.

Describe in 1-3 keywords how your image feels different from the source image.

For next week submit your work in progress and be prepared to talk about your what you plan to do next, and your progress so far. Create a blog post documenting your work.”

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Concept

In the spirit of Halloween, Trusha and I want to make a scary alternate reality of a live video, showing an “Upside Down” world parallel to ours. We want the altered video to feel ominous and surreal.

In addition to the Upside Down world of red and black, we also want to include waves to highlight all the invisible forces at play under the surface of everyday life. We are inspired by the pictures below:

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Progress

Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/8JmpBweFV

So far, we have established the two regions: normal and upside down. I have also mapped out the grid on the bottom half and tinted it with red.

Our next steps are to add waves to the bottom half. Is there a way to generate the waves based off a user’s movement?