La Dispersion du Fils : Into regions of incomprehensibility

La Dispersion du Fils concerns the tragedy of Actaeon, the hunter transformed into a stag and chased down and devoured by his own hounds. The work can be taken as an algorithmic interpretation of the tale’s central themes: metamorphosis and transcendence, pursuit of forbidden knowledge or unattainable goals, sacrifice and transgression, chance and control. Designed for display in a 360° omnistereoscopic multi-user virtual reality theatre, the work takes the form of a voyage through vast, living three-dimensional structures constructed entirely from audio-visual elements found in the film archives of Jean Michel Bruyére and the LFKs. The artwork is real-time, generative, aleatoric and chaotic; never repeating and never ending. Any single moment is guaranteed to never be witnessed again, and of all the possible states the system might assume, most will never be seen at all. This paper discussed both the immersive and emergent aspects of the work, from both technical and aesthetic viewpoints.

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Matthew McGinity

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Publication date: July 2018

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.64

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

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[1] E. H. AdelsonJ. R. Bergen 1991 The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision Computational Models of Visual Processing, 91(1), 3 20

[2] R. Barker 1796 Specification of the Patent Granted to Mr. Robert Barker... Called by Him La Nature À Coup D’oeil. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures: Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, and Selections of Useful Practical Papers From The Transactions of the Philosophical Societies of all Nations., 4 165 167

[3] A. B. Baron 1897 Système D’appareil Pour Projections Circulaires Animées Dit Cinématorama, France, Patent No. 261,650

[4] N. BrownD. Del FaveroM. McGinityJ. ShawP. Weibel 2008 Tvisionarium Ii AVIE-based artwork

[5] R. Brown 1828 A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations Made in the Months of June, July and August 1827, on the Particles Contained in the Pollen of Plants; and on the General Existence of Active Molecules in Organic and Inorganic Bodies The Philosophical Magazine, or Annals of Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Natural History and General Science, 4(21), 161 173

[6] G. Bruno 1585 De Gli Eroici Furori Paris Antonio Baio

[7] J. M. Bruyère 2003 Si Poteris Narrare, Licet. (S. CliftJ. ShawP. Weibel (eds.), Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film: MIT Press

[8] C. A. Chase 1895 Stereopticon Panorama Machine, USA, Patent No. 545,423 27 August

[9] C. Cruz-NeiraD. J. SandinT. A. DeFantiR. V. KenyonJ. C. Hart 1992 The Cave: Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment Communications of the ACM, 35(6), 64 72

[10] B. FröhlichR. BlachO. StefaniJ. HochstrateJ. HoffmannK. KlügerM. Bues 2005 Implementing Multi-Viewer Stereo Displays WSCG (Full Papers) 139 146

[11] J. J. Gibson 1979 The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Boston Houghton Mifflin

[12] R. Grimoin-Sanson 1896 Projecteur Multiplex Dit Projecteur Sanson: Appareil Permettant De Pouvoir Prendre Et Projeter Des Vues Panoramiques Mouvementées Donnant L’illusion De La Réalité, France, Patent No. 261,244

[13] F. HeiderM. Simmel 1944 An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior The American Journal of Psychology, 57(2), 243 259

[14] C. F. A. LegueyF. P. G. Bap 1902 Panorama Cinématographique, France, Patent No. 327,090

[15] Lucretius.1921 Of the Nature of Things (W. E. Leonard, Trans.): JM Dent & Sons

[16] Projecting Apparatus 1902 Projecting Apparatus: Google Patents

[17] M. McGinity 2014 Presence, Immersion and the Panorama. (PhD), institutionUniversity of New South Wales Sydney

[18] M. McGinityJ. ShawV. KuchelmeisterA. HardjonoD. Del Favero 2007). AVIE: A Versatile Multi-User Stereo 360° Interactive VR Theatre Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Emerging Displays Technologies: Images and Beyond: The future of displays and interaction 2

[19] A. Michotte 1963 The Perception of Causality Oxford Basic Books

[20] N. Ordine 1996 Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass: Yale University Press

[21] OvidA. S. Kline 2000 Metamorphoses (A. S. Kline, Trans.)

[22] OvidG. Sandys 1632 Metamorphoses (G. Sandys, Trans.). Oxford John Lichfield

[23] K. Pearson 1905 The Problem of the Random Walk Nature, 72(1865), 294

[24] S. PelegM. Ben-EzraY. Pritch 2001 Omnistereo: Panoramic Stereo Imaging IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(3), 279 290

[25] J. D. Prothero 1998 The Role of Rest Frames in Vection, Presence and Motion Sickness. (PhD), institutionUniversity of Washington

[26] V. Pulkki 1997 Virtual Sound Source Positioning Using Vector Base Amplitude Panning Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 45(6), 456 466

[27] G. Ramos-FernandezJ. L. MateosO. MiramontesG. CochoH. LarraldeB. Ayala-Orozco 2004 Lévy Walk Patterns in the Foraging Movements of Spider Monkeys (Ateles Geoffroyi) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 55(3), 223 230

[28] I. RheeM. ShinS. HongK. LeeS. J. KimS. Chong 2011 On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 19(3), 630 643

[29] B. RieckeJ. Schulte-Pelkum 2013 Perceptual and Cognitive Factors for Self-Motion Simulation in Virtual Environments: How Can Self-Motion Illusions (“Vection”) Be Utilized? Human Walking in Virtual Environments (pp. 27 54): Springer

[30] N. Scafetta 2011 Understanding the Complexity of the Lévy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility with a Multi-Scale Cost/Benefit Model Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 21(4), 043106-043106-043110

[31] D. W. SimsN. E. HumphriesR. W. BradfordB. D. Bruce 2012 Lévy Flight and Brownian Search Patterns of a Free‐Ranging Predator Reflect Different Prey Field Characteristics Journal of Animal Ecology, 81(2), 432 442

[32] I. E. Sutherland 1968). A Head-Mounted Three Dimensional Display Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I, 757 764

[33] N. F. TrojeA. Basbaum 2008 Biological Motion Perception The Senses: A comprehensive reference, 2 231 238

[34] G. ViswanathanS. V. BuldyrevS. HavlinM. Da LuzE. RaposoH. E. Stanley 1999 Optimizing the Success of Random Searches Nature, 401(6756), 911 914

[35] M. WexlerJ. J. Van Boxtel 2005 Depth Perception by the Active Observer Trends in cognitive sciences, 9(9), 431 438

[36] P. ZahorikR. L. Jenison 1998 Presence as Being-in-the-World Presence: Teleoperators and virtual environments, 7(1), 78 89

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