The Peacock spider or Gliding spider (Maratus volans) is a species of jumping spider.
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“This project has started from a search for a 3d-objects optimal packing algorithm over a surface, but evolved in something rather different. I love the work by Richard Long, from which this project takes its cue. The way he fills lonely landscapes with arcaic stones patterns and its eroic artistic practice, in his monumental vision, is in strong contrast with this computational approach that – ironically – allows virtual stones creation and sorting in a non phisical, mental way, a ‘lazy’ version, so to speak. The virtual stones created by several fractal subdivision strategies, find their proper position within the circle, with a trial and error hierarchical algorythm. A mix of attractors and scalar fields (some with Perlin noise) drives the density and size of the stones. The code is a C++ console application that outputs a OBJ 3d file.”
Algorithmically generated formations by Giuseppe Randazzo.
The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds.
Perpetual Energy Wasting Machine is a rope and pulley mechanism, installed in the staircase of the WRO Art Center in Wroclaw, Poland. The mechanism connects the sliding doors of the elevator in one floor with the elevator call button on another floor. Operating in two directions on the first and on the second floor, the contraption automatically moves the elevator cabin in an infinite loop between those two levels.
By Niklas Roy.
For the avoidance of cruelty to animals, dead frog bodies originally used in a medical dissection experiment were re-used for this work.
„Appropriate Luigi Galvani’s experiment on frog leg nerve reflection to form an underwater ballet dance troupe using the lower halves of freshly dead frog bodies. When the dance troupe is connected to a music box, a Zombie Music Box with strong visual effect is thereby created. Inside the music box, a metal comb is played by metal prongs on the cylinder as the player turns the handle. The metal prongs trigger corresponding comb teeth to generate pleasant music. At the same time, vibrations generated by the comb teeth are converted to electronic signals, which are transmitted to electronic sensors.
The signals received by these sensors are then converted to kinetic energy which drives the corresponding frog legs,different notes will trigger different legs, causing them to twitch and shake. All the player or the performer needs to do is to turn the handle, and a unique underwater frog leg ballet dance driven by mechanical devices and bioelectricity will be performed.“