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Friday 20 July 2012

p5ToMaya_CommunicationTest01



During the last days I've done some simle tests on UDP communication between Processing and Maya. I've uploaded the resulting system, it works quite well and really fast with up to 250 agents, above that limit it slows down a bit, but it still good (I've tested it with up to 2000 agents, and it still works, even if quite slow...).
The flocking script is based on Jose Sanchez's example "flocking_01" for the Plethora library ( www.plethora-project.com)
The Python script is based on the examples of UDP communication from the Python wiki (http://wiki.python.org/moin/UdpCommunication)

INSTRUCTIONS (Availabel also in the Processing script)
- open Maya and load the 'processingToMaya_UDP_lineTracing.py' file in the script editor.
- check that the 'IP port', 'bufferSize' fields are the same in the two scripts, and that the 'numElements' field in the Python script has the same value that the 'numParticles' field in Processing
- define the value of 'curveStep', in order to define the resolution of the final trajectory curves.
- run the Processing script and press 'u' to start the UDP stream.
- run the Phyton script. It should start to stream the Processing particles into Maya.
- if Maya is giving you a '10400 error', you need to increase the value of 'bufferSize' in both the scripts, or you need to check that all the values set above are the same in the two scripts.
- when you want to stop the stream, go to the Processing window and press 'u' again.
- in the Maya script editor you should get a message 'stream stopped'. If this does not happen, try to restart and restop the stream for processing. Do not try to do anything in Maya before getting the message, otherwise the software will crash.
- once stopped the stream, you'll find in Maya one polyCube object for each Processing particle and a curve describing the particle trajectory.
- if you do not want to have the trajectories curves,comment out all the lines after 'sock.close()' in the Python script and run the scripts again.

Link to the files:
https://www.box.com/s/214ec9a9e5d1f81fc829

Friday 6 July 2012

SB STUDIO - FIBERS TEAM - VENICE BIENNALE SUBMISSION


TYCHONIAN SEHNSUCHT - Sublime Bodies Fibers Team final submission for the Maribor 2112YC exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2012

Team Members: Xian Gong, Selma Koudsi, Yasser Mehanna, Andreea Nica, Andrea Rossi, Koichi Sugawara , Matteo Taramelli , Tanya Zabavska.

Sublime Boides Studio by Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger
Dessau Institute of Architecture


Divinior et excellentior sit Triangulorum sphæricorum cognitio, quam fas sit eius mysteria omnibus propalare. (Tycho Brahe)

Maribor, 15th June 2112
Everything started from a point. The most abstract point in the middle of the mountains in the North. From there, the rotation started.

In the beginning it was totally unclear what was all about. A gigantic organism slowly emerged from the ground, swallowing the land in a recursive spinning movement of expansion. Its fibers were ceaselessly weaving with each other, creating a continuously shifting scenario of growth.

Gradually, the system opened up, embracing the old city of Maribor in wide circles. Since then, people started to feel seduced by that weird organism that was flowing outside their houses. It was a strange feeling, mixing a fear for uncertainty and a yearning towards its incomprehensible complexity.

At that point the system suddenly started to grow back onto itself. Fibers started to spin around repeatedly narrower orbits, generating a redundant labyrinth of claustrophobic abysses. In this way, the organism emerged to be what we know today, or better, what we try to know.

The only way to explore and attempt to understand it is to enter, involving our bodies with the sensual experience of the space unfolding through time. The excessive nature of this encounter, rather than allowing for a complete understanding of the system, generates an erotic bond between us and the undefined spaces of the system we inhabit.

Until we won’t be able to grasp it, we’ll always desire it.