virtual space research topics

Edward Ihnatowicz – the senster

Edward Ihnatowicz was a cybernetic sculptor active the late 1960′s and early 1970′s. His ground breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience and reached their permanent with the senster, a large 15 feet long hydraulic robot commissioned by electronics giant , Phillips for their permanent showplace. The sculpture used sound and movement senses to react to the visitors .It was one of the first computer controlled interactive robotic works of art.

Edward Ihnatowicz not just build the senster but developed its behaviors it was a truly ground breaking piece of work that is still a source of inspiration for artists and roboticicts today. Ihnatowicz was interested in the kinetics stemmed from his conviction that the behavior of something tells us far more about it than its appears . This led him to build the senster , one of the most influential kinetic sculpture ever .It consisted of fifteen foot -long steel frame articulated in six different places, with the joints all powered by hydraulics. On the senster’s head were an array of microphones and doppler rander system. The Honeywell mini computer coutolling the the mechanism was programmed to make it react to three things moderate sounds low sounds , load sounds, and fast motion.Moderate sounds the head would move towards ,loud sounds it would pull back from , and fast motion it would track. The result was an uncanny resemblance to a living, and the crowds at the Evolution in Eindhoven, Holland, where it was an show reacted with enormous excitement. Children wound shout and wave at it , call it names , and even throw things. Ihnatowicz explains that its movements seemed to stem from situations that people recognized.

Technologies

Surround Sound

Surround sound in the movies : surround sound started as a way to immerse movie going audiences in the film they were watching . From the very beginning . the movies have driven the development of surround sound technology .

The 1940s : fantasia

In many ways , walt Disney can be considered the inventor of surround sound . when the groundbreaking movie Fantasia was still in development , Disney met with conductor Leopold Stokowski to discuss the film’s classical music score . Stokowski suggested that Disney contact the engineers at bell labs , who are were working on a nascent multiple- microphone stereo recording technology .

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