[dorkbotsea-blabber] Brainstorming Emergent Communication Procotols

[William Beaty]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Wim Lewis wrote:
> The bidirectional nature of LEDs comes up now and then but rarely

Years ago the Exploratorium had a travelling science exhibit on Chaos, and
had the perfect device:  an array of "Teddy Ruxpin" toys nailed to a wall.
These are teddybears which, when spoken to, will mumble a similar
distorted reply.

Just imagine clapping or yelling.  The wall of teddies breaks into
murmuring as waves of delayed/distored sounds are propagated between
nearest neighbors.



> seems to get much use. Anyway, this paper develops some possible uses
> of the idea a bit more than most. I especially like the sort of
> coöperatively-clocked bidirectional communication protocol they
> developed (read down to the "iDropper" section).
>
> One thing I think is interesting is that self-communicating artworks
> seem to usually use either completely invisible means (like RFID) or
> completely visible/perceptible means (touch, sound, light). But this
> communication is somewhere in between --- an imperceptible, or
> sometimes barely-perceptible, modulation of a very visible light, in
> fact a light designed to be used as an indicator for humans to see,
> but which easily carries information we can't see.
>
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