A look back at some items in our archives.
Timothy Madden, Ronald Bruce Smith, Matthew Wright,
& David Wessel
CNMAT, UC Berkeley, 1750 Arch St., Berkeley, CA,
94709
{tjmadden,smith,matt,wessel}@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu
Rimas Avizienis1, Adrian
Freed2, and Peter Kassakian3 and David
Wessel4
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies(CNMAT) UC Berkeley
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Rimas Avizienis1, Adrian
Freed2, and Peter Kassakian3 and David
Wessel4
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies(CNMAT) UC Berkeley
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
This paper describes situations which lend themselves to the use of numerous cameras and techniques for displaying many camera streams simultaneously. The focus here is on the role of the director in sorting out the onscreen content in an artistic and understandable manner. We describe techniques which we have employed in a system designed for capturing and displaying many video feeds incorporating automated and high level control of the composition on the screen.
The Stylophone electronic musical instrument, made briefly famous by David Bowie and Rolf Harris in the 1970's, has made a recent comeback. The musical toy industry evaluates its products according to MTTC, the Mean Time to Closet, and also by how many battery changes before the product is put aside - presumably until the generation finds it "anew". The carbon footprint and negative environmental impact of such short-lived products is shocking.