NoQuarter

for screenshots see: Minorinth

Working Title: MINORINTH/LABYTAUR

Look-and-feel test for MinoRinth: a photogrammetry point-cloud of Theseus fighting the Minotaur seen from below against blue sky, crossed by pink laser lines Roman mosaic labyrinth: a square meander maze ringed by a mosaic city wall with towers and gates, corner ornaments at the edgesThe octagonal baptismal font of the Pisa Baptistry seen from the gallery above, a small bronze figure at its center, set in rings of inlaid marble floor A site-specific VR environment for [NYU Game Center's 8th annual No Quarter event](http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/no-quarter/no-quarter-2017/), Nov. 3rd, 2017.

Principles

You are the path you tread.
Only the blind one sees the truth.

          immersant (un self-conscious) performance
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          audience active participation
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              virtual actor

World Design

Blender scene for MinoRinth: twelve wooden folding chairs ringing a flat round labyrinth carved with concentric paths The MinoRinth play space in the studio: a spiral labyrinth taped in white on a wooden floor, an HTC Vive headset resting at its lit center, controllers at the edgesAuriea's bare feet on a wooden floor beside two HTC Vive trackers with ankle straps, ready to be worn for full-body VR Wireframe viewport of the virtual Labytaur: a latticed dome and radiating disc enclosing a cylindrical core, a small dark figure and inverted cone below Four rough alpha screenshots of MinoRinth: wireframe foliage over the spiral labyrinth, a dark scanned beast on a plinth, a black column on red rings, and the green orb under gold walkways
"Only he who walks the road on foot learns the power that it commands..." --Walter Benjamin

“The man who reached the center of the maze, after going ritually through it, after ‘dancing’ it, is a changed man and, as far as I know in the way of an intuitive open-mindedness to natural laws and harmonies, which he maybe won’t understand, but he will feel them inside him, he will feel united with them, and it will be the best test of truth, as pitch is the test for the musician.”
--The Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral: Louis Charpentier

  1. design Minotaur Collage for MinoRinth: two mirrored profiles of Auriea joined like a Janus head, each face half-hidden by a horned grey bull's head ZBrush sculpt for MinoRinth: a child-faced figure with blank eyes, cow ears, and great curved horns, hair braided up into a knot
  2. is it based on my body? i think so.
    1. repeated confrontation: sleeping, bounding in revelry, fighting, offering a cup.
  3. confront/become the MINOTAUR at the center
    1. you become me?
  4. design Labyrinth
  5. a diagram on the floor corresponds to the one in VR
  6. based on Cretian style labyrinths, with views into heaven and hell
    1. upside-down Promised Land
    1. things you encounter along the way
  7. look to the middle east for shapes
  8. natural forms like mountains, built forms like paintings of renaissance buildings
  9. design on multiple dimensions.
    1. try not to be so literal.
  10. THE CENTER
    1. the immersant is always the center, much like in desktop worlds.
    1. A journey to the center: the walls don't really matter?
    1. Made with pointclouds?
  11. design the performance
  12. this is what people see from outside the VR
  13. audience participation: should anyone be allowed to just join in?
    1. Ariadne action

Ref

Formal

Conceptual

Technical

Inspiration

Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne: the god leaps from his cheetah-drawn chariot toward the startled Ariadne under a deep blue sky crowned with stars

List o'Unused Ideas

Medusa

The Play's the Thing
The person in the VR stands on a stage, gets props to hold and cues. Maybe they don't even know who they are playing. The audience has to guess who they are or what they are holding. Scenarios can be elegant or funny. Multiplayer where everyone gets a part to play.

Possibilities:

Technical: