http://anaisjanacek.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/chromatic-particles/ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://anaisjanacek.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/chromatic-particles/#comment-17 il duello « diverse variations Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:15:28 +0000 http://anaisjanacek.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/chromatic-particles/#comment-17 [...] posted a belated comment on my post chromatic particles in which he takes offense to my critique of his work. In spite of [...] [...] posted a belated comment on my post chromatic particles in which he takes offense to my critique of his work. In spite of [...]

]]> http://anaisjanacek.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/chromatic-particles/#comment-15 Tony Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:18:16 +0000 http://anaisjanacek.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/chromatic-particles/#comment-15 touche anais. i am happy to see you crit my work. though it may not be useful for you as a user it seems to be useful to you as a blogger. i am flattered you used it for your first real post. in defense of my work let me just say that my mathematical model is just that, a model. it no more real than a spinor is a an representation of an electron. the model does not get "confused" or fail to "work properly" when the legs fuse together, it simply represents the legs as a single particle when there is occlusion between mirror limbs. this single particle representation of the legs together is sufficient for the detection algorithm to function and for the viewer to perceive what is happening, and thats all the only work i need to get done. i am not sure what you mean when you refer to my style of choreography. the video presents only a single path derived from the graph extracted from a set of improvisational data. my other posts on "the winger" clarify and give clear examples of this harvesting technique and what i mean by a dance graph. indeed there is "much more to the dancing body than numerical analysis can graph" though this, and my related dance graphing tools, have peaked the interest of several accomplished choreographers including sara rudner and twyla tharp. i am finding many choreographers think of their compositional landscape in terms of these types of markov networks, though they might not call them that. i look forward to continued discourse with you. it would be great to see some footage of your dancing on your blog. drop a comment on "the winger" next time you have a question about my work. i am always glad to have the attention. ;) touche anais. i am happy to see you crit my work. though it may not be useful for you as a user it seems to be useful to you as a blogger. i am flattered you used it for your first real post.
in defense of my work let me just say that my mathematical model is just that, a model. it no more real than a spinor is a an representation of an electron. the model does not get “confused” or fail to “work properly” when the legs fuse together, it simply represents the legs as a single particle when there is occlusion between mirror limbs. this single particle representation of the legs together is sufficient for the detection algorithm to function and for the viewer to perceive what is happening, and thats all the only work i need to get done.
i am not sure what you mean when you refer to my style of choreography. the video presents only a single path derived from the graph extracted from a set of improvisational data. my other posts on “the winger” clarify and give clear examples of this harvesting technique and what i mean by a dance graph. indeed there is “much more to the dancing body than numerical analysis can graph” though this, and my related dance graphing tools, have peaked the interest of several accomplished choreographers including sara rudner and twyla tharp. i am finding many choreographers think of their compositional landscape in terms of these types of markov networks, though they might not call them that.
i look forward to continued discourse with you. it would be great to see some footage of your dancing on your blog. drop a comment on “the winger” next time you have a question about my work. i am always glad to have the attention.

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