Tuesday, 12 May 2009
FMP (How Things Work)
I have selected my first example from the category 'Systems', which is one suggested during my primary research, 'What is wireless?'
I have realized that it would be far too difficult and time consuming to visually explain all aspects of wireless, so I have made yet another categorization, which is specific to the subject of systems. I have broken down the subject into 'forms' 'pioneers'. This can be applied to any system, but not necessarily objects or actions. I will have to decide upon the categorization for these subjects.
Therefore for 'what is wireless', I have selected the form, 'wireless energy transfer'. The other option is 'wireless communication' - however there is already an ample amount of visual material available on this subject online, and I felt that the purpose of the project is really to hit a niche market of people seeking answers to obscure subjects.
The pioneer selected is Nikola Tesla, due to his early success with wireless energy transfer, and his unfortunately unachieved (due to budgetary reasons) vision of a world powered wirelessly via a system of energy transmitting towers (such as his Wardenclyffe tower project). A crucial part of this therefore is to explain what he was aiming to achieve, how, and what he was going to use. I have spent some time illustrating the Wardenclyffe tower material (the tower, power station & original patents) due to its key importance in explaining this fully. I will be making a seperate post soon to show how the process of producing the illustrations, and mocking up the context.
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