Posted by: Haiyun Ying on: May 26, 2009
We come up with the following concept for clockwise and anticlockwise version of our tourist map: Museum route: Shopping route: The things we put into our map: some interesting place for tourists: photoview point, good place to have a eat some useful information for tourists: tourist bus stop, cash dispenser scene pictures The concept design points: [...]
Posted by: minyouhotmail on: May 25, 2009
Chapter 2 is about what we can easily see. In the chapter the working of the eye is explained and related to our visual attention. OUr visual attention works like this; we move the spotlight of our attention by moving our eyes from point to point, picking out details. Generally we only have vague information [...]
Posted by: minyouhotmail on: May 25, 2009
Viewing distance goes hand in hand with the resolution and size of an image. While walking through an art museum you notice all of the wonderful paintings hanging on the wall. The distance that you are viewing the images is between 1 and 5 meters. Can you tell the resolution of the image from where [...]
Posted by: minyouhotmail on: May 25, 2009
The map will be 6×8 meters. This is really big. To get an idea of this huge size, here you find a comparison with a person of 1.80m… It is big!!!
Posted by: julielouwman on: May 25, 2009
It is very important to look at the way people perceive a map. The book explains an experiment an actor asks people on the street for directions, during the chat, the actor is replaced by a different actor and most people don’t even notice. Same sort of experiment is asking people to keep track [...]
Posted by: ufang on: May 25, 2009
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory has developed some awesome ideaas to understand cities since 2004. The increasing development of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years allows a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way they describe and understand cities is being radically transformed- alondside the tools they use to design them [...]
Posted by: ufang on: May 24, 2009
Chapter 4- Color This chapter help us to know more about how should color be used in design. ○ There are two types of light receptor for human: rods (low light level) and cones (normal daytime version) ○ Human have few and weak blue-sensitive cones Blue + dark background = insufficient luminance contrast Yellow + [...]
Posted by: Haiyun Ying on: May 24, 2009
Chapter 3 – Structuring Two-Dimensional Space This chapter introduces how we perceive the objects and understand the patterns on 2-dimentional image-plane. ○ Finding the boundaries of objects is an important function of pattern-processing systems. ○ There are two kinds of processes involved in pattern perception. One has to do with dividing up-down space through [...]
Posted by: ufang on: May 24, 2009
There are different types of great maps that we can get some inspiration from… 1. Tokyo Otemachi station map Tokyo Metro 2. Airport map- Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de 3. Zoo map- ZSL London Zoo 4. Zoo map- Singapore Zoo 5. Event map- 2008 Urban simple life map 6. simple transit stop map 7. [...]
