PROJECTS
| MiXTAPEStry |
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This distributed interactive performance, called
MiX TAPEStry, took place in Duke's Fitzpatrick-CIEMAS studio
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Krannert Art
Museum. The name of the project plays on the "mix tapes" of hip hop
culture and is part of an effort to interest middle school children
in science and technology. Hip hop recording artist Robi Roberts
contributed an original rap called "Lemonade" from the Illinois site,
wich was streamed over the Internet so that middle-school
students in the studio at Duke could then add music to the song through
their movements that were detected by motion sensors, manipulate the resulting
"tapestry" of musical and visual elements. |
| soundSense |
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soundSense is an exploration of the possibility of representing human identity and motion through sound. The fundamental goal is to understand how computers understand and communicate with people. Imagine that a computer senses "Jane Doe is walking across the room." It may be hard to program the computer to recognize and articulate this fact. Through soundSense, researchers hope to program computers to communicate complex states to people without directly programming the articulation. |
Continuous Performance Project
TOOLS
Amira
Amira is a commercial platform for working with 3D data sets that has developed into a
recognized desktop standard in microscopy, medicine, and biology. The VTG will
be using the virtual
reality add-on to view and explore data in the DiVE.
http://www.amiravis.com/
AVS
AVS is an open source platform for working with 3D data sets.
| Syzygy |
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Syzygy is an open source virtual reality library which allows a programmer to work on projects at a lower level than other software packages (i.e., C++, OpenGL). This is especially useful for transferring existing desktop applications or facilitating traditional graphics programmers projects in the DiVE.
http://www.isl.uiuc.edu/syzygy.htm |
Virtools
Virtools is a commercial platform for quickly designing interactive 3D
environments. The 'drag and drop' environnment
allows users with little technical or programming background to work on projects
and research in the DiVE. http://www.virtools.com
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