{"id":1422,"date":"2021-03-09T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.courses.art.cmu.edu\/2021s\/60210a\/?page_id=1422"},"modified":"2021-03-10T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:08:06","slug":"03-10-creature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.courses.art.cmu.edu\/2021s\/60210a\/daily-notes\/03-10-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"03-10 Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Agenda<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Viewings<\/li>\n<li>Techniques<\/li>\n<li>Work Session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It sounds morbid but if I had a gravestone I think I\u2019d want an easing function on it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ir8f66GUnz\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ir8f66GUnz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zach lieberman (@zachlieberman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachlieberman\/status\/1369619124389810177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Viewings on Virtual Creatures<\/h3>\n<p><em>Considerations: <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Behaviors, not appearance. Simulations of physics, tropisms, and intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Vocabularies of interaction and operation. What can the <em>user<\/em>, <em>do<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Meanings made through contexts of presentation and use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Let&#8217;s consider some cats.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.courses.art.cmu.edu\/2021s\/60210a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ezgif-1-a2524060da99.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leslie Stetz, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/tabby-cat\/mefhakmgclhhfbdadeojlkbllmecialg?hl=en\">Tabby Cat<\/a><\/em> browser extension<\/li>\n<li>Umbrellium, <a href=\"https:\/\/umbrellium.co.uk\/case-studies\/trumpington-community-college-augmented-bms\/\"><em>Cinder the Cat<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016)<\/li>\n<li>Eugene Krivoruchko &amp; Keiichi Matsuda, <a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.leapmotion.com\/cat-explorer\/\"><em>Cat Explorer<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Next, a worm.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caenorhabditis_elegans\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em><\/a> is one of the simplest organisms with a nervous system: a worm with a brain containing only 302 neurons. As of 2012, it was the only organism to have its connectome (neuronal &#8220;wiring diagram&#8221;) completely simulated in code, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/openworm.org\/\">OpenWorm<\/a> project. In 2016, School of Art BFA student Zach Rispoli used the OpenWorm brain code to create <a href=\"https:\/\/zrispo.co\/worm\/\"><em>C. Elegans Destroys Its Own Bedroom<\/em><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/golancourses.net\/2016\/zrispo\/04\/29\/c-elegans-destroys-own-bedroom\/\">class project<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>And:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.courses.art.cmu.edu\/2021s\/60210a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/walkesr3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ed Burton &amp; SODA.co.uk, <a href=\"http:\/\/panoramx.ift.uni.wroc.pl\/~maq\/lovesoda\/0.36beta.html\"><em>Constructor<\/em><\/a> (1999)<\/li>\n<li>George Always, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringbeauty.com\/\"><em>Staggering Beauty<\/em><\/a> (Note: flash warning)<\/li>\n<li>Variable, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variable.io\/ucc-organism\/demo\/\">UCC Organism<\/a><\/em> (Note: writeup <a href=\"https:\/\/variable.io\/ucc-organism\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Marpi Studio, <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.marpi.pl\/ocean_desert\/\"><em>Terrarium<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rares Popa, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ahhzo.me\/touchbar-pets\">Touchbar Pets<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>David Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/experiment\/blob-opera\/AAHWrq360NcGbw\"><em>Blob Opera<\/em><\/a> (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Other \/ Time Permitting:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nathan Gordon, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pablotheflamingo.com\/\">Pablo the Flamingo<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lars Berg, <a href=\"https:\/\/larsberg.github.io\/_lsr\/2018\/1014_laserBagPipe\/index.html\"><em>LaserBagPipe<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Techniques<\/h3>\n<p>Smooth out a noisy raw signal (for example, from a sensor) by computing a running average:<\/p>\n<pre>smoothed = (0.9 * smoothed) + (0.1 * noisy);\r\n<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/editor.p5js.org\/golan\/sketches\/zsHOsu5DY\">Zeno&#8217;s Interpolation Demo<\/a>\u00a0(position)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/editor.p5js.org\/golan\/sketches\/7TgMUzo5j\">Zeno&#8217;s Interpolation<\/a> (Color)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smoothly change the frequency of a periodic signal (or noise):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/editor.p5js.org\/golan\/sketches\/PKCc1OVHM\">Sketch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda Viewings Techniques Work Session It sounds morbid but if I had a gravestone I think I\u2019d want an easing function on it https:\/\/t.co\/Ir8f66GUnz \u2014 zach lieberman (@zachlieberman) March 10, 2021 Viewings on Virtual Creatures Considerations: Behaviors, not appearance. Simulations of physics, tropisms, and intelligence. Vocabularies of interaction and operation. 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