Project Number
- 69
Title
- A-Volve: A Real-Time Interactive Environment
Description
- Virtual environment for synthetic life forms.
Contact
- Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau
Affiliation
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Address
- Beckman Institute, Drawer 25
- 405 North Mathews Avenue
- Urbana, Illinois 61801
- +1.217.244.2897
- +1.217.244.2909 fax
- 405 North Mathews Avenue
- christas@rels.ncsa.uiuc.edu, laurentm@rels.ncsa.uiuc.edu
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "A-Volve is an interactive environment where visitors interact with virtual organisms in the real space of a water-filled glass pool."
- Visitors use a "sensor pencil" to create shapes that are immediately brought to life. The virtual organisms interact with visitors and each other under the behavioral guidance of the creators.
- "A-Volve is part of a continuing investigation of natural interfaces and complex interactivity."
Sight
- SGI Onyx, Macintosh, Barco projector
Sound
Touch
- water-filled glass pool, Macintosh touch screen
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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