Final Project Idea

For the final project, I am leaning more towards creating an interactive experience/artwork rather than a game. The user would interact with the physical components on Arduino which would trigger changes / feedback on the p5js sketch. I want my project to have a coherent theme that ties the physical and visual components together, and though I haven’t settled on this idea completely, this is what I’m currently thinking:

• • theme: human connection / friendship / bonding
    • 2 users each put one hand on a surface that measures temperature (temperature sensor) and uses the other hand to hold each other’s hand, with an object containing a force dependent resistor (FDR) in between
    • the warmth of the hands are used to change the color of the visualization and the 2 temperatures make the colors lerp
    • how strongly the 2 are holding hands together, measured by the FDR, changes the stroke width of the illustration (tbd) or how big/small it is etc
    • the resulting sketch would represent the 2 users’ connection; their body warmths dictate the color changes and the illustration dynamically changes depending on how strongly the 2 are holding hands together
  • resources: temperature sensor, force dependent resistor bundled up inside a flat/thin object that 2 people can hold in between their palms while holding hands

I want the p5js visuals to be minimalistic, calming and have a mild/muted color palette.

I am currently looking for inspiration for the actual illustration/art on the p5js and here are some I really liked after searching on the web and revisiting some of our past class readings: