Project Number
- 125
Title
- Artificial Dolphins
Description
- Interactive communication interface with artificial life forms in a virtual environment.
Contact
- Tsuneya Kurihara
Affiliation
- Hitachi, Ltd.
Address
- Central Research Laboratory
- 1-280 Higashi-koigakubo
- Kukubunji-shi
- Tokyo 185 Japan
- +81.423.23.1111
- +81.423.27.7754 fax
- 1-280 Higashi-koigakubo
- kurihara@crl.hitachi.co.jp
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Artificial Dolphins" enables human communication with an artificial lifeform in a virtual reality environment.
- The dolphin-style simulated life form swim autonomously in a virtual sea. Real-time computer graphics, motion planning, simulation of water, foams, sprays, bubbles, and 3D sound bring the dolphins to life. Users communicate with a simple gestural interface through a light pen and video cameras.
- This type of real-time communication and interaction with artificial life implies new opportunities in entertainment, education, and communication.
Sight
- SGI Onyx Reality Station, SGI Indigo, SGI Indy, video cameras
Sound
- TSound CubeU, amplifier, speakers
Touch
- light pen/wand
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Video demonstration on Visual Proceedings CD-ROM.
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