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Cool otomata6/16/2023 ![]() I am pleased and proud to say that my biggest fans and donators are locals Bay Area people, despite me playing in tourist heavy areas. I learned early on that people of all ages love to have their "moment," and I can provide that by just rolling along with whatever they want to chat about. ![]() The show consists of a vaudeville style variety of acts, including short, ridiculous and cleverly worded puppet interpretations of fairy tales and poems both well known and forgotten songs to sing along with, songs to dance to and songs to get parents to dance to while their children look on horrified and lots of interaction. I am not a mathematician by any means, so that is as far as infinity goes for me (I also believe that light travels in infinite speed in a vacuum, come at me bro! I am a digital being, speed of light is my universe’s sampling rate).I busk all ages and adult shows under the title "Automata Subterranea" (Puppets From The Underground), formerly under the (better known) name "The Flat Broke Puppet Co." But please do the math, it is possible (but not proven) that there might exist some configurations where the exact repetition would take (billions of billions of times) longer than the known age of our universe. I should have said “(practically) never repeating” above. I’d love it if you give some sort of attribution, still cool if you don’t do it.Ĭ: You are a filthy liar! You can’t create “never repeating” patterns with a system whose state space is finite!Ī: You are right. Q: Can I use the output in my own piece, am I allowed to do that?Ī: By all means do so! Hell do it even if I said no. Also the code needs a bit of clean-up to be meaningful.Ĭ: I found this bug where the cells move in circles. I might open source the whole thing while I’m at it. Q: Why can’t I load pieces from other peoples’ links?Ī: You most probably have JavaScript disabled.Ī: I will open source the HaXe DSP library I used to program this. I wrote a DSP library with HaXe and programmed this to try it actually. Sorry.Ī: I programmed this with the HaXe programming language (it is awesome, look it up). I will make a standalone version of this at some point which will emit OSC and MIDI. Always open to suggestions.Ī: I will look into my possibilities for doing this. The ability to change the scale that is used and ability to change the overall tempo is already added in the second release. ![]() there are a lot of things that can be added, but I don’t want to clutter things. Here are replies to some common questions:Ī: I really strived for simplicity for this instrument. If you encounter something you like, just press “Copy Piece Link” and save it somewhere, or better, share it! Go add some cells, change their orientation by clicking on them, and press play, experiment, have fun. This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. If a cell encounters another cell on its way, it turns itself clockwise. If any cell encounters a wall, it triggers a pitched sound whose frequency is determined by the xy position of collision, and the cell reverses its direction. at each cycle, the cells move themselves in the direction of their internal states. It employs a cellular automaton type logic I’ve devised to produce sound events.Įach alive cell has 4 states: Up, right, down, left. Update: Click here to get Otomata for your iPhone / iPod / iPad! You need Flash plugin to experience this content.
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