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About
Haptic Clash Detection
MIT, How to Make Almost Anything
Instructor: Neil Gershenfeld
How simple can an instruction be?
One paradox of modern construction is that an architect will posess precise coordinates locating an element like a brick in digital space, but in order to communicate this information, we flatten our spatial data into series of 2D drawings for a builder to reinterpret on site. Haptic Clash Detection explores a process where the digital space of the design model and the construction site are superimposed: geolocation ideas from the global positioning system (GPS) are substituted for traditional means of instructing the mason in order to skip drawings entirely.
A Site for Digital Instructions: The physical guides for Eladio Dieste’s Church of Atlántida showed the masons where to lay the bricks in space. Removing all of the physical structures, can we convey the same guidance with digital scaffolds?
Concept Sketch: Detecting coordinates by imparting haptic feedback on physical space
A Digitally Guided Brick Placement
Using a wearable to convey haptic feedback to the mason’s hand
Constructing a Flexible Wearable
Device Integration
Computer Vision for color tracking
Camera Setup
Two cameras, sufficiently calibrated, show
Proof-of-Concept for Hand Coordinate Tracking