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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Kepler's Orrery
| Location: Expo Yellow |
Kepler's Orrery is an interactive gravity simulator that composes & plays generative music while visually demonstrating physics equations. Each simulation starts with a "galaxy" of bodies that attract each other, move, and swirl around under the influence of their mutual gravity. When the bodies collide, they make music. Each one is assigned a melody and an instrument and plays its next note at each collision. You can watch the simulation projected on the wall, or you can change the system using its interactive kiosk: experminent with physics constants; see the force field; change the mass or position of the bodies to see how the initial conditions affect the outcome.
Web site: http://www.art.net/simran/GenerativeMusic/Kepler.html
Tags: generative music gravity interactive physics teaching
About the Maker(s)
Simran Gleason
Simran Gleason is a sound artist who works in interactive installations, generative music, and composition. He likes to make algorithms that make music based on some aspect of the real world, or in this case, math and physics.
http://www.art.net/simran
