GMU:Max and I, Max and Me/Quan Zhou

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Idea

Update idea ( more detail ) 05.20.2021

Tumbleweed appears in the north of the world. It grows from a seed. In autumn, its roots will dry up, and the whole plant will be easily moved by the wind. When they are moved by the wind, their seeds will also fall to the ground while they are tumbling. It is an alien species to the United States, and the United States is threatened by it every year. They will block the roads, will block people's doors and cause some disturbance to people's lives. I thought about what would happen if I made a similar object like this and put it in a southern city's street in China? This city has a humid climate and is very different from the environment tumbleweed lived before.

北正街球.jpg 化龙池球01.jpg

The interactive way: when human touch it, it will tumble to opposite direction

Draft 02 .jpg

The way of movement

Trumbleweed draft 01 .jpg

Previous idea

 01 Establish a certain way of plant manipulation. We can know that plants communicate with each other through chemical signals, electrical signals and other signals. While reading these signals, transform them into abstract dynamic images, or the computer can read these signals and issue instructions to control the next action.
 02 Tumbleweed. It is a plant-like device that rolls around the street, looking for something, like a tumbleweed, that will be blown by the wind or moved by people. It is an intruder of this environment, and it did not belong to this environment at the beginning.
 03 According to the environmental changes of people and space (temperature, humidity or light intensity and sound frequency), the peculiar effect of a real-time video is changed in real time.
 04 Create a plant simulation machine, it is a machine, but all actions simulate the life characteristics of the plant. Photosynthesis, absorption of water, exhalation of oxygen and absorption of carbon dioxide, etc.



Experiments

01
Play around on Max and getting to know the interface of Max  22.04
 ( Careful , the sound is quite loud )
 
02 
Sound to text & video analysis
 Sound to text   File:Assignment 2 audio.maxpat 
 Video analysis
03 
Converting analog signal to digital to analog
 Firstly, try example file inside Maxmsp, due to the port of Arduino cannot be found
 File:02cSerialCommunication.maxpat
 Then test signal
 File:Analog to digital.maxpat



References

Student work : 
Soundscape installation from Felix Geith[1]