Day 8: (Thu Sep 21, Week 4) Interaction, Improvisation, Generation

Notes for 2023-09-21.

New Assignments

New assignment, due Tuesday noon: Exercise: Visual Interaction. Please post via Assignment 5 Posts: Visual Interaction.

Agenda

1. Two big questions: what to build, and how to choreograph it?

2. Discussion:

   • compositional scales: gestures, phrases, section, piece

   • improvisation vs composition

   • sliding autonomy

   • generative systems

   • interaction

3. Personal examples:

   • Albatross

   • The New Artist

   • Separate Self

   • Curves

4. Practicalities:

   • actuator options

   • structural options

   • lighting

   • props and materials

5. Vision modeling example using SVM

   • motion_recorder.py

   • motion_model.py

   • motion_classifier.py

6. Brainstorming discussion

References

1. Norman White

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_basic_principles_of_animation

   • 12 Principles of Animation

   • Slow In & Slow Out - 12 Principles of Animation

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_(mathematics)

   • https://easings.net/

4. Combinatorics

   • Brian Eno: Music for Airports (WikiPedia)

   • Brian Eno: Music for Airports (YouTube)

   • JavaScript Systems Music

5. Generative and rule based systems

   • Beatbots, Marek Michalowski

   • Swarm Robots, Boids

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

6. Modeling data, optimization

   • TU Delft Leo

   • https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html

   • Downhill Simplex Method Animation

7. Generative Lighting

   • Leo Villareal, e.g. Cosmos

   • Ian Brill, e.g. Plume (vimeo),

   • Jim Campbell, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0OVnZjbAo