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So Yamaoka

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The interactive computer animation software to explore emergent behavior.  The animation emerges from the local interactions between massive agents and is not governed by the pre-defined global rules.  There are several groups of agents forming a hierarchy.  Interaction between agents in a group defines their group behavior, which affects the agent in upper level.  At the same time, the agent in the upper level affects the group behavior of the agents in the lower level.  As a result, the massive interactions and feedbacks between the agents in this hierarchical model form the emergent behavior of one entity.  The agents can listen to the sound of the real world thus real people can interact with them.  The variety of the agents' auditory perception adds complexity to the emergent behavior.

About the artist

/*---- bio ----*/ 'So', My first name means conceive, think and imagine. I like it. My research interests are the unity of interactive computer graphics and audio signal processing (i.e., Visual Music), human-computer interaction, affective computing, ubiquitous computing, brain science, fancy electronic music devices. So Yamaoka has received B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Aizu, Japan. He is currently pursuing an M.S. in Information and Computer Science / Art Computation Engineering concentration at University of California, Irvine. /*---- end bio ----*/ http://turing.ace.uci.edu/~syamaoka/

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