Blotter

Lieven Menschaert (), Frederik De Bleser en Tom De Smedt (Burocrazy) zijn de creatieve krachten achter BLOTTER. Voor Time Canvas werken zij aan robotjes die, gestuurd door geluid, in interactie treden met de tentoonstellingsruimte zelf. w8 and see..

Lieven Menschaert (), Frederik De Bleser and Tom De Smedt (Burocrazy) are the creative forces behind BLOTTER. For Time Canvas they will work on robots that will, lead by sound, interact with the exhibition-space. w8 and see..

Project progress

A huge positron brain lies at the very core of each killdroid! Actually... no. The BLOTTER robots operate in a way similar to agent-based Artificial Intelligence (thanks to Walter Daelemans for pointing out the term). The software is a derivate of work we have been doing at the St. Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, dealing with natural composition and emergence in graphic design. Each robot has a tiny brain (roughly comparable to an ant or a cricket) with a few very specific tasks:

• 1) wander around aimlessly
• 2) if there is less sound than a while ago, go back where you came from
• 3) if another agent's trail is encountered, follow the trail

You can watch this as a movie on the Blotter intelligence core page.

With this simple set of rules, each of the robots will (likely) start to exhibit intelligent behaviour, intelligence emerges all by itself.

Project history

Blotter footage

Blotter livestream history

Blotter robot eyes

Blotter deadline stuff we have to put up with

Blotter intelligence core

Blotter mission statement

Blotter robot assembly

Blotter robot tests

Links

http://nodebox.net

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