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    Sunday, December 13, 2009

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Meeting Notes

Meeting 02 Notes
1. Code: agent behavior, channelling conversations, history weights,
2. double LED grid, test surface behavior with image masks
3. Test Rendering component (improve “virtual prototyping” capabilties and output for motion design piece)
4. Arduino Linking (adjust microphone sensitivity, LED dimming on a grid, KIT light test, etc)
5. Material Samples

Meeting 01 Notes

1. Effect Model (partially by monday)
wok can set up a rough sketch model in processing to test out some effects. we discussed the relationship between the model and the surface patterning.
2. Microphone input
testing microphone input into processing
3. Multiple Inputs
test scripts that use multiple inputs as floating points.
4. Relationships
test script for 8 inputs, each with weighted relationships to one another. for example, quiet conversation between two persons at .3 and .4 (on a scale of 0-1) is interrupted by head of table at a .8. how does this interaction affect the light distribution? Does the .8 steal 80% of the light from the others, or does it take the entire cloud of light? Can we set up a model to test these interactions in processing?
5. Hardware
(discuss with Gana monday)
6. Form
relationship between form and model that produces interaction. (processing and rhino) (maya, etc) methods for exporting script to for milling, etc.
7. Motion Design
possible additional layer for project presentation purposes. (possible 20 second teaser, abstract motion graphics piece using logic of processing model)

Links That Need to Be Sorted

I found this pod cast to be of interest:

http://www.poptech.com/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=34

conversation as model for social network…

Cellular Automata

(wok, I know you’ve seen this already…)
http://www.kokkugia.com/wiki/index.php5?title=RhinoScript_importing_custom_file_formats

http://web.mit.edu/lira/www/projects/convtable.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG66tyefuiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGwsfpHevU

This example shows the basic principle behind using sound-processing-arduino-leds:
http://melka.one.free.fr/blog/?p=131

Here are some samples for how we might be able to approach the LED driver script:

EXAMPLE 1
http://tinkerlog.com/2007/10/22/diy-tengu-on-a-breadboard/
http://www.tengutengutengu.com/
The Tengu app sends pre-programmed characters/bitmaps to an led matrix according to sound input.

we could use up to 6 sound sensors to read the volume at a specific point at the table. I would send the volume readouts to the processing script to generate dynamic characters instead of preprogrammed bitmaps.

2 possible amplifier circuits for a single sensor:
http://www.reconnsworld.com/forum/read.php?9,10
http://tinkerlog.com/2007/05/20/cheap-sound-sensor-for-avr/

EXAMPLE 2
Pong app
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1148260794
Light balls would be created according to the number of guests. Light balls would always flow to less active areas and disappear if not bounced back by increasing the volume quickly enough. A person that continuous to be the loudest would force its “light ball” to reduce in size.

(I also have another source on ” interfacing with processing”)

EXAMPLE 3
Network app
this is based on a different principle but still quite cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXPavI3Aec

EXAMPLE 4
Shockwave app
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMIAjsOAn4

To illuminate the table we could use capacitve sensors
> http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/sensacells_floor_displays_led_footprints.php
this would give us the ability to identify how many hand/people are present

some other samples that show how impactful a 3d illumination would be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq1lkrtAJ_0&feature=related

Urban illumination as a potential application?

http://www.physorg.com/news143438150.html

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