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  • I wonder what is the value of such vibe coded programs. It can't be the implementation or engineering aspect at all, when generated by AI. Is it the idea? Should it be a tribute to Craig Reynolds in this case?
    by smartmic
  • Not to be confused with the Ascention Flock of Birds 6-DOF tracking device, like the Polhemus Fastrack, SpaceBall, or SpaceMouse.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788773

    >Body Electric supported all kinds of interesting input and output devices, including MIDI, sending and receiving UDP packets over Ethernet, loading Swivel3D 3D skeleton files and animating them, sending their state over the network to a pair of SGI workstations for rendering with the Isaac rendering engine to the VPL "EyePhones" VR headset (one SGI workstation per eye, with a Mac to run the simulation), VR input devices like VPL's DataGlove and Body Suit, 3D input devices like the Ascension Flock of Birds, Polhemus, and Spaceball, 3D audio output devices like the Convolvotron, and lots of other cool stuff.

    https://www.jamodrum.net/Articles/jaron.pdf

    >Ascension Bird. Perched atop Lanier's head is Ascension Bird, a 6-axis magnetic tracking device that Lanier connects to SGI Maximum Impact and Octane workstations. This unit is similar to a Polhemus device used for motion cарture and 3-D digitization in VR worlds, but it is slightly more stable in performance. (Lanier's system also includes a series of Macintosh computers that connect to the sensors via an Opcode Studio 5 MIDI interface/patch bay/processor.) Ascension Bird works in a multiunit configuration called Flock of Birds. Used with a series of transmitters and receivers and VPL's Body Electric software, this system creates 3-dimensional virtual environments where objects can be linked and rendered in real time. For example, Lanier's face is glommed onto a slithering insectlike creature reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. (Body Electric is a MAХ like programming environment specialized for virtual reality applications. At present it is not commercially available, but it may be available soon for noncommercial academic distribution.) Sensitive to the slightest movement, Ascension Bird has a life of its own and slides across Lanier's face, projecting its travels up and down its circuitous route onto the entomological image.

    Ascension Technology Flock of Birds Quick Start

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSaBDvkHBQ

    https://fob.sourceforge.net/clemson.html

    http://www.mindflux.com.au/products/ascension/fob.html

    https://wiki.ros.org/asr_flock_of_birds

    https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:19610/FULLTEXT01...

    https://my.eng.utah.edu/~cs6360/Assignments/Ascension.html

    by DonHopkins
  • No doubt inspired by the recent sonnet 5.5 release demoing a murmuration of birds
    by BrokenCogs
  • Is it as fun as xroach?
    by smackeyacky
  • Made a web version: https://nicobrenner.github.io/flock/
    by nico

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