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Re: Cool or pointless? The Sony Rolly
[Re: lostclimate]
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07/05/08 17:01
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It's cool, but pointless.
Would get one if I'd be rich, but as I'm just poor student, it's a no-go.
"Yesterday was once today's tomorrow."
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Re: Cool or pointless? The Sony Rolly
[Re: ChrisB]
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07/05/08 23:28
07/05/08 23:28
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The design actually is art, IMO. It could act as a robot character in a movie!
If it is choosing its behavior simply from data of the music, its frequencies, loudness, speaking voice, chorus, iterations etc. and from saving its own behavior to produce patterns of behavior - than it is very good.
I fear that it has extra data additional to the music, because in one video they showed synchronized rollies.
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Re: Cool or pointless? The Sony Rolly
[Re: Pappenheimer]
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07/05/08 23:59
07/05/08 23:59
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I could be mistaken, but from my understanding it is able to do both 'custom' scripted stuff and automatic procedural stuff generated by software that interprets the music data. It does come with an editor to make your own 'custom' behavior which you probably can activate somehow (I believe there are a couple of buttons on top of the device). I also think that even though they talked about custom scripts during the demonstration also, I believe the 'synchronized' rolly might have not been using a custom script. A lot of the music seemed to be distinct enough to cause different behavior as if it's procedurally generated by the music data (for example sweeps going from left channel to right channel would be quite easy to detect and make some behavior for). The design actually is art, IMO. It could act as a robot character in a movie! Ohh yeah, I definitely agree. It reminded me a bit of the Flubber robot character in a way. Speaking of character, it has a bit of a personality when it's doing it's dancing, lol. Quite funny for just a piece of moving plastic.
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