Many flowers close when the sun goes down or the temperature drops, however, there are some flowers that bloom at night. Night-blooming flowers can reflect the moonlight and are often much more fragrant than those that bloom during the day. One of the reasons flowers that bloom at night is often more scented is that they need to attract nocturnal pollinators that must find them in the dark. This is also why most night bloomers have white flowers that reflect light and are more apparent at night.
Meaning of 'flowers bloom at night'
‘Flowers that bloom at night’ could be a metaphor for personal awakening and realization of the self during the dark. This phrase refers to the beauty and talent that can be discovered from spending time in solitude and looking within.
Theory
Dark Night of the Soul / Dark Night Experience
The term “Dark Night of the Soul” was first coined by the mystic St John of the Cross and refers to those times in our lives when we feel stuck, empty, stressed, confused or traumatized. It refers to a stage in personal development when a person undergoes a difficult and significant transition to a more profound understanding of life. During the dark night of the soul, a person can struggle with their sense of meaning in the world. It can either make us feel lost and helpless, or it can activate previously unseen abilities and resources in us.
Case Studies
The Art of Bloom
“The Art of Bloom” is a multisensory installation that includes a room that changes color with body temperature. A canopy of white flowers hovers overhead, while sensors detect a visitor’s body temperature, causing lights in the floor and ceiling to change color and send white vellum petals—a simulation of the actual flowers above—drifting downward. The flowers are real while the floor colors are virtual.
MyBloom: an expression of olfactive extimacy
Many people's lives have become increasingly focused on self-love, mindfulness, and slowing down, but the prestige fragrance industry has yet to capitalize on this trend. MyBloom is an exciting new creative idea that translates these values into an olfactory experience. MyBloom helps our customers to meet the demand for more authentic fragrances that consumers can genuinely connect with.
Consumers transform their innermost thoughts into fragrances, while perfumers create genuine scents, each with its own personal tale. These scents are not exactly linked to specific olfactive families as we know them, instead, they’re linked to light, vibrations, and textures.
PULSE: An Installation Close To Our Hearts
Pulse is an interactive installation that changes color in response to your heartbeat. We only think about our heartbeat when we're scared, furious, or enthusiastic, or when we're at the doctor for a checkup. The heartbeat is a fascinating input because of its link with deep emotion. Pulse reveals what's on the inside, transforming an internal rhythm into a light animation show. A pedestal in front of Pulse has a glowing sensor that reads a participant’s heartbeat. As the sculpture displays begins to pulsate, it also charges up with every beat. The sculpture grows in complexity and intensity with each person's heartbeat, culminating in a bright yellow show.
Bibliography
Givaudan (2022) MyBloom: an expression of olfactive extimacy. Available at: LINK
Knight, C. (2021) Make a dreamy nighttime garden with flowers that bloom at night. SBLY Home Hacks. April 24. Available at: LINK
Press, J. (2018) The Dark Night of the Soul: Understanding Amidst the Absence of Meaning. Medium. Oct 19. Available at: LINK
Initial Prototype [LIDAR] For the initial prototype, I try with cube following the tutorial. It works fine as it is spawning new cubes following the user's detection. For the following stage, I replace the cube with flowers and add force to the flowers so that it will move randomly after spawning. Technical Challenges I encountered some technical challenges in the following stage. For example, the flowers will overlap with each other when spawning. Thus, I have to add collider on the flowers so that it does not overlap with each other. However, the motion of the flowers seems robotic when colliding with each other. I tried to solve it by animating the collider but the result seems not so relevant yet. Thus, I have to continue to explore further to solve the problem. However, the prototype for lidar detection seems fine as random flowers gather around the user when the user is moving around. Below are some of the videos demonstrating some failures & experimentations that I'v...
Design Iteration My initial water ripples need to be visible more when users step around. Thus, I tried another way of doing it by using a shader graph and particle system following the tutorial. However, I have encountered a lot of problems during design iteration. The water shader seems doesn't work under Universal Pipeline Renderer for the first tutorial. Multiple Failure and Experimentations By following the tutorial, I still couldn't identify how the shader works. After exploring, there is a component call RenderTexture for the camera to render the texture of the particles through code. At the same time, I revamp the whole project and use a different sensor called HOKUYO instead of LIDAR sensor. During the testing and experimentations, I use TUIO Simulator to code the content of the project. This method is faster as I don't have to setup the project using LIDAR. Example screenshot of the TUIO Simulator. The simulator act as the user. It's easier for future conten...
Floor Plan Measurement I have chosen my actual location setup at the lobby so that I could proceed to project it with the sensor. The floor plan will be around (Width: 14.5ft & Height: 24ft). Technical Setup This is the initial tryout without debugging the exact floor plan measurement. the purpose is to test the sensitivity of the sensor and figure out bugs in the code. The results show the calibration with the sensor together. Code Debugging The water ripples keep spawning from the center point whenever a user is detected. Instead of attaching the water ripples under the flower pooler, I have successfully solved the issue by creating a new object pooler for the water ripples. So the water ripple will be another group of objects performing individually. Another bug is that the ripples of the flower itself spawn randomly. I have solved this issue by restarting the animation again by adding animation events on the blooming animation. Flower Closing Animation I have added closing anim...
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