Looking for Water

Looking for Water (figure 3) consists of a series of sub-environments based around the theme of water. Participants begin in outer space, surrounded by sun and Earth images which are animated playbacks of real-time satellite weather data. The images are refreshed daily to form a long-term visual history. They then fall to Earth and land on a northern Lake Michigan archipelago of islands. The 3D models of the archipelago of islands are based on panoramic video images taken while kayaking. The 3D information has been extracted from the moving video images to allow participants to move about and explore these worlds. In the end, the world dissolves into moving water; the visitors enter an area of dynamic, particle-system based fountains and hoses that they can manipulate -- they can build water sculptures, or simply spray each other.

Figure 3. Looking for Water - two local people and two remote participants view the sun