Assorted Idea Research - Supporting Imager, Videos

Just a post containing some supporting imagery and such for my ideas so far. May be useful in future, even if I don't go with any of the ideas I've come up with so far. Also: another ideas post on the way, possibly within the next day.

Interactive morphing table surface. I saw this and immediately thought of my game-like object idea, the concept of people interacting with / shaping virtual representations of mountains. This interface allows interaction in a practically real-time way, while also creating a physical object, one that you can walk around and touch - perhaps this is customised to retain form, or with certain algorithms to ensure mountain-like formations (still allows a pretty diverse field, but still), and set to retain its shape? I'm imagining a wider surface here - a large meeting-room table, or even how about the entire floor of a room? Whole mountain ranges rise and fall, and you can walk through it all - potential? Here's the video:

Here's a screenshot of the Strava Global Heatmap, something I looked at in connection with the "tracking people's movements across mountains" idea. Unlikely I'll end up doing this idea, but like I said at the start of this, might be useful later on.

Website here: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6/-5.52158/53.54115/blue/both


More to come.