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wrote:
>The ultimate environment reads motion perfectly, doesn't place anyIn reply Robert Wechsler and Helena Zwiauer
>restrictions on the performer(s), differentiated perfectly between a number
>of moving bodies in a single space, and is completely invisible to the
>audience.
Electrodes are new to me. I may be misunderstanding but wouldn't the impulses from these electrode sensors cause muscle spasms or twitching? How do they sense the muscle contraction? An anatomy lesson might be in order to place the electrodes in the correct places. From what I can imagine the sensor reads contraction-0/1, release0/1 and would send the data to an effect authoring tool. Lot's of wires?One of the things I like about working with electrodes is that they do not
read motion at all, rather muscle tension.
That is, they show, or amplify what the audience cannot see so well but
perhaps can feel. "Dance" is not just the motion of bodies in space!
Can anyone let me know where LiveImage is based out of. From what
I have gathered off this list...
(sorry about the absence of quotes I compiled this info from several
messages)
Any movement you create can be stored in a Library. Sequences or phrases
are stored. They can be reused, shared, deconstructed, or reconstructed
as you wish. Macintosh version of Life Forms enables you to play sound
files from an audio CD, or to play QuickTime sound files along with the
movement that you are creating. The SGI version also has a feature for
MIDI connectivity. Any shape created in Life Forms automatically creates
transitional movement when you select the Play button, which automatically
smooths the movement between defined shapes (keyframes). Life Forms was
used for Pre-viz work on the films Jurassic Park and Terminator II.
Who distributes/created/employs this technology?
Enjoy the New Year.
Philip Cootey
Rowntree 3D