Design goal—to integrate methodologies and practices of surface mapping, image tracking, and computer vision to use as my tools for experimentation.
Body Planes is a technology research project on body tracking technologies and tools. It was a process of discovery to understand what the body is and can be.
Body Measurements
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prototypes
initial prototypes—experimentations on what a body plane could be.
PROTOTYPE_1
PROTOTYPE_2
PROTOTYPE_3
PROTOTYPE_4
PROTOTYPE_5
PROTOTYPE 6—defining the design elements that describe the body plane as an object that can be worn and adjusted to variably accommodate any unique body measurements—not constrained to a body type.
Next set of prototypes were designed with five functions: loop, loop ends, window, window frame, and tunnels.
prototypes : new body planes—exploring where they are placed on the body.
prototypes : GUI navigation—relating the body to an interface and the plane to an interactive device.
final prototypes—seven specimens chosen to continue exploring what a body plane can be with each labeled based on the body part they represent.
SPECIMEN-1 : TRSO
BODY PART : torso
PLANE : back of body
LOOP/LIMB : torso-shoulder
TARGET SIZE : 3.5" x 10.5"
SPECIMEN-2 : STRNM
BODY PART : sternum
PLANE : upper front of body
LOOP/LIMB : arms x2
TARGET SIZE : 4.0" x 3.5"
SPECIMEN-3 : LMBR
BODY PART : lumbar
PLANE : front of body
LOOP/LIMB : arms x2
TARGET SIZE : 3.0" x 4.0"
SPECIMEN-4 : CLLR
BODY PART : collar or shoulder
PLANE : upper back of body
LOOP/LIMB : arm x2
TARGET SIZE : 5.5" x 4.0"
SPECIMEN-5 : VRTBR
BODY PART : vertebrae
PLANE : front or side of body
LOOP/LIMB : neck
TARGET SIZE : 3.0" x 5.5"
SPECIMEN-6 : TRPZS
BODY PART :
PLANE : back of body
LOOP/LIMB : torso-shoulder
TARGET SIZE : 5.25" x 3.0"
SPECIMEN-7 : RBCG
BODY PART : ribcage
PLANE : front of body
LOOP/LIMB : arm + thigh
TARGET SIZE : 1.5" x 4.5"
next :
lookbooK—for each specimen—in context
image targets — sizes
image recognition tests
