[dorkbotsea-blabber] Brainstorming Emergent Communication Procotols

[William Beaty]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Heurihermilab wrote:

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

>
> Details of the protocols would be interesting -- can an individual
> Ruxpin know how many others are on the line?  Are there Doppler or

DOH!  I was wrong, it wasn't "Ruxpin" with the cassette recorder, it was
some other name.  I don't see anything similar on ebay collectables (but
plenty of Ruxpins.)


> other phase effects on the incoming infrared?  Can you fuzz their
> inputs with a mirror, or a candle and some well-chosen gestures?  How

The bear was purely audio.  It recorded a burst of speech from the kid,
distorted it into baby-talk wa-wa phonemes, and spit it back out on a
speaker.  Neighboring bears would hear it and delay/distort it again.
Sometimes it would work continuously in loops like fibrillating heart
cells, sometimes it would fade quickly.





> complex a finite state machine can we run in a Ruxpin, anyway?  It's
> not at all unlikely that there will be emergent effects from having
> bunches of them, but I suspect they may require a well-chosen
> networking rule, or two, to be viable/interesting in groups.
>
> It would be awful cool if there were interesting interactions, however
> unplanned, between multiple projects in the exhibition.  Or perhaps
> they will be affected by the crowds breaking up the usually-simple
> optical environment -- everybody wear reflective clothing!

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