{"id":1753,"date":"2009-09-15T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/09\/15\/fun_with_lasers\/"},"modified":"2009-09-15T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:37:40","slug":"fun_with_lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/09\/15\/fun_with_lasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video popped up on the Best of YouTube podcast. The developers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/perception\/scoreLight\/\">describe<\/a> the system as follows:<br \/>\n<code>a prototype musical instrument capable of generating sound in real time from the lines of doodles as well as from the contours of three-dimensional objects nearby (hands, dancer&#039;s silhouette, architectural details, etc). There is no camera nor projector: a laser spot explores the shape as a pick-up head would search for sound over the surface of a vinyl record - with the significant difference that the groove is generated by the contours of the drawing itself.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t pretend to understand the underlying technology &#8211; I just know that<br \/>\na) The &#8220;music&#8221; needs some work.<br \/>\nb) I want one anyway.<br \/>\nc) So do my cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video popped up on the Best of YouTube podcast. The developers describe the system as follows: a prototype musical instrument capable of generating sound in real time from the lines of doodles as well as from the contours of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/09\/15\/fun_with_lasers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}