Project Number

242

Title

Microworlds, Sirens, and Argonauts

Description

Interactive virtual environment for exploring the art of living narrative landscapes.

Contact

Agueda Simó

Affiliation

University of Southern California

Address

E-mail

simo@felix.usc.edu

WWW

Year

1999

Reference

SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"Microworlds, Sirens, and Argonauts is a fantastic journey through multiscale microscopic worlds that grow and transform as users interact with them, revealing new patterns, structures, and sounds." 
 
"It introduces the concept of 'living narrative landscapes:' virtual spaces that allow users to successfully construct their own navigational maps and build their own representational models that can coexist with the narrative of the environments. Thus, the virtual space becomes a living narrative landscape as the Argonauts (users) navigate along time and space, taking part in the complex visual and aural behaviors of the environments."

Sight

graphics workstation, display

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

307 - art / commentary

Secondary

201 - virtual environment

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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