So after Investigating CoMob further I decided it would be a great application to use in order to create a GPS based art piece that would be in real time. I thought about ways in which it could be displayed, and mike suggested I looked at Apple's Quartz Composer. Its a visual editing program used by apple to make iTunes visualisers, screensavers etc. It can use real time data to manipulate the visuals in accordance to the data its being sent. For example the iTunes Visualiser uses an audio input to change the shape and match the beat of the track with the visuals.
Luckily Quartz Composer can feed XML data into it which is exactly what the CoMob application will receive at the specified server.
So the idea for the project is to setup a server site that other CoMob users can set their apps to which will then send all the data of users GPS whereabouts that can be fed into Quartz Composer in Realtime to achieve a live visual representation of GPS locative media. I hope to display the live feeds on the large screen outside Portland Square building or even set up a live stream on a website using the quartz composer web plugin.
My next step is to start playing around with Quartz and putting data into to it and seeing what kind of results I get from XML data. In the mean time I will keep thinking about the output of the visualisation.
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