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04-04-2006, 9:52 AM Harris Joined on 04-04-2006 Posts 7 DorkBots - NYC, Wednesday April 4, 2006 I'm going to check this out... (http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/05.april.2006/) people doing strange things with electricity The nine million and eighty seventh dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 5th at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Please bring snacks to share! Featuring the lovely and talented: John Arroyo: Eingen Rhythm Software Using machine learning statistical analysis a rhythmic synthesizer was created. It is a rhythm composer of sorts that is trained instead of user programmed. The end result is an intelligent groove box where interpolations of the seed rhythms are possible to generate in real-time. Each of the seed rhythms is automatically extracted and projected into a space, the user can then move around in this space and morph one rhythm into the next. More intelligent instruments are on the drawing board...moving towards a new paradigm in music software synthesis. http://www.rhythmicresearch.com Jeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction Research While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch systems enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, allowing for the use of both hands along with chording gestures. These kinds of interactions hold tremendous potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and intuitiveness. Multi-touch systems are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for collaborative scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops. We've developed a new multi-touch sensing technique that's unprecedented in precision and scalability, and I will be demonstrating some of our latest research on the new sorts of interaction techniques that are now possible. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch John Huntington: Synchronizing Live Performance with Musical Time Modern entertainment and show control systems run in many different ways, but are often used in a linear mode, where all the elements of a show are locked to a fixed time base (and the time base is often linked to some linear media). For example, a prerecorded video might be played in a live show, and lighting and sound cues might then be programmed to trigger at precise times, down to the video frame. This approach is cost-effective and relatively easy to program, but, of course, the actors, dancers, musicians and other performers have to synchronize themselves to this pre-determined, rigid clock structure, and this severely limits the performance. Even with those limitations, however the majority of media-synchronized live shows today sacrifice flexibility in order to gain precision and control, and execute all lighting, video and other cues from a rigid clock. Professor John Huntington and Dr. David B. Smith, colleagues at NYC College of Technology's Entertainment Technology department, believe that that the technology should track the performers, not the other way around, and this is the focus of our research into the use of Musical Time as a synchronization source. Music runs on "musical" or "metric" time, where the musician or conductor has total control over the tempo, down to a beat level. Unlike linear time, Musical Time can slow down or speed up, allowing the music to respond to the actions of singers and other performers. http://www.zircondesigns.com    Report

04-08-2006, 3:30 PM Harris Joined on 04-04-2006 Posts 7 Re: DorkBots - NYC, Wednesday April 4, 2006 Went to this, my first DorkBot nyc meeting Wednesday night... very inspiring.  The format of the meeting was three presentations by academic folks to an audience of well over 100. The presentations varied from informal to fairly formal (all made use of powerpoint).  The second presentation was incredible – all about the dazzling breakthroughs being made in multi-touch technology:  Check out a video here: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch   Being there got me thinking that it might be great for us to incorporate the concept of structured presentation at each of our meetings.  I’m thinking one, short (15 minute), semi-formal presentation by a Make:Philly member about a particular skill or technology he or she is knowledgeable in.  The goal of it all being for those in attendance to gain knowledge in other areas.   Thoughts? Harris   PS. Seeing as the UACA can be noisy, one thing we would definitely provide is a MIC and a projector ;)    Report

04-10-2006, 12:06 PM cyenobot Joined on 04-04-2006 Posts 29 Re: DorkBots - NYC, Wednesday April 4, 2006 Great video! Reminded me of the movie "minority report". I like the idea of a semi-formal presentation, but I also like the idea of the open floor presentations too. Toss up, as I can see the benefits of both formats. Mic and projector - good idea, but something tells me the guys at the bar will only get louder :)    Report

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