To each era its machine-from hydraulic pumps to computers. And in order to look at ourselves in the mirror, we have always used technological analogies, compared our minds to the technologies we had created. We have developed a capacity for metarepresentation-a capacity to be aware of having, and to analyze our own minds-which is a function of higher order consciousness. The evolution of the human mind is instantiated in the evolution of technology. We have always used our cognitive capacities to create the objects we needed to survive, from weapons to garments and shelters. On the output side, then, the balloon is deformed by the varying pressure of hundreds or thousands of pins and actuators to render a hand.The history of humanity and the history of technology are conjoined. So, for example, let's suppose on the input side one puts on a tight latex glove with markers on it that are read by the machine and translated into spatial coordinates. To remedy this defect the obvious solution is to use a balloon or other flexible sheet: on the output side the actuators or "pins" run inside the balloon and spread out spherically on the input side the actuators (which can simply be a means for the computer/input apparatus to measure location in space) are on the outside. With this simple model the empty (negative) space between the top of the object and the floor of the projector is lost - the top surface/edge is a true image and then the space is filled in below. InFORM - Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo via Colossal. Should you happen to find yourself with a surfeit of time you may also be interested in videos of the " bubble sort" or the " quick sort" treated as a Hungarian folk dances, the " merge sort" as a Transylvanian German folk dance, or the " select sort" as a Gypsy folk dance. On the video of the QBasic program, on the other hand, you'll want the sound off, very, very off, because it will rapidly drive you insane.) (BTW, on the video above and on Bingmann's program, as well as on the video below, you'll want the sound turned on, way on, since it is integral to the video - it's called "The Sound of Sorting" for Christssake.
It was created by Timo Bingmann, a Ph.D student in the " Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Algorithmics" in Karlsruhe, Germany, to provide much better background ( see, e.g.) and more variants than a prior YouTube version created YouTube user andrut.Īndrut is good enough in the about section of his video to describe prior art, and there's even more including an old QBasic sorting program (SLT), as Bingmann points out.
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