Out of curiosity, I wanted to try and scan my material object into the digital realm, in hopes that I could use the sun to bleach a QR code into my produced material which, when scanned, would allow any AR-compatible device to place my material into their space, only visible through the device screen.

I though this would be an interesting way to further push the malleability aspect of this project, as I reflected upon this material not really allowing flexibility in the first round of this major project. By introducing this object into the digital realm, I could alter every property of this material, disconnecting from the physical limitations.

AR efforts

While I was able to use the Digital Lab to scan my object into a digital "mesh", a process done by using a LiDAR-technology-based handheld device, I did encounter difficulties with scanning both sides to create a single object.

The device did not recognize my material as it was too thin for it register me trying to make a 360-degree scan, so I had to resort to scanning both sides individually and merging those in 3D-editing software.

Unfortunately, seeing how my knowledge of the Blender program is limited, I could not create an object that was recognized by mobile AR applications. This was a shame as I could not materialize this path of the project to the full extent, however this only furthered my interest in the field of producing AR work, as I managed to get this far already, with the rest of the way being blocked by a knowledge barrier, something I can easily overcome