Project Number
- 245
Title
- ROUTE66
Description
- Live, interactive, MIDI-driven 3D virtual world created for The Millennium Motel.
Contact
- Ronen Lasry, Daniel Szecket
Affiliation
- Magritte's Cow
Address
- +1.323.258.4371
- info@magrittescow.com
WWW
- http://www.magrittescow.com
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "ROUTE 66 is a live, interactive, MIDI-driven, 3D world created for The Millennium Motel. It is the world outside the motel, an ever-changing environment that can be transformed by visitors using MIDI interfaces linked to SideEffects Houdini software and driven by Intergraph workstations."
- Some of the interactions include panoramic environments, animated interactive elements (UFOs, wildlife, etc), changing landscapes, seasonal changes, eclipses, comets, weather changes (rain, snow, fog, lightning), daylight, night, interactive trees, and sound effects.
Sight
- Intergraph workstations, projection displays, physical effects (fog, lighting)
Sound
- MIDI, amplified sound
Touch
- fixed-base automobile
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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