Hay Young, a researcher at the Center for Media Arts at City University of Hong Kong, believes computing should be a full contact sport. Elsewhere, this article describes work being done at MIT on Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition software. The technology allows users to draw basic shapes, and then applies rules to determine what objects the shapes represent and how these objects should behave.
Graphics Conference Plays up Interaction; Sketch Recognition
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hability to do this.
der, this has been ’round for yonks.
That is correct – my Newton 130’s simple drawing functionality would let me draw things that sort of looked like circles and lines, and made them all vectors so i could adjust them at will.
I particularly like the fogscreen [full contact sport article] It looks like a viable technology to sell to every geek needing to project something into empty space [like giant floating heads!]
I also am facinated by the idea of body-powered music. Using physical movement to control musial scores could be a cool new art form. Especially if the control motions were combined with some form of dance/martial arts. It’s also a much better use of tech and bodies than surfing the net while pretending to be part of society.
Using physical movement to control musial scores could be a cool new art form.
Not exactly. Have a look at the Aetherophon (built 1920):
http://bird.musik.uni-osnabrueck.de/hongkong/theremin.htm