Through its evolution, the human brain developed organic structures tuned to motion as it exists in nature. In order to better understand how motion communicates, I set out to collect as many kinds of motion as possible from the world around me. This example shows my exploration of movement in the natural world through short fragments of video. In my first set of videos, I found things had to be alive or affected by the wind to produce motion. (Something, a force, always produces motion?) Later I found some other forces that result in motion: gravity, flowing water, mechanical things, light when intercepted by moving things or moved as with a flashlight, sports and motion from cause and effect.
The gesture fragments in this video illustrate the concepts in the taxonomy for motion. Most of the fragments are only a few seconds long, enough to contain one element of an idea of motion and not more. This video presents a few examples of the breakdown of motion into component parts. Even though short, this group illustrates the power inherent in the idea of motion as information. Details of the idea are elaborated in the thesis document.
motion for interface: a taxonomy; taxonomy video examples by Elaine Froehlich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.