This is a fleet of drone sensors that invade a body, cover the space inside and communicate out their relative positions. This data can then be mapped onto musical chord progressions and melodies that make sense with the relative movement.

I came up with this while winging around a 3d print of a potato- shaped asteroid and thinking music in time to the gestures I was using winging it around. An actual potato might be a good environment to prototype a system like this but it could be developed for non plant systems too.
-- JesusHChrist, Sep 23 2015

Flock of Birds https://www.shef.ac...t/hardware/tracking
[pertinax, Sep 27 2015]

This excellent apart from the bits about potatoes, drones, bodies and music.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 23 2015


Paradoxically, it makes sense apart from the phrase "make sense".

Of course, you could bypass the invasive-drone part, and just plug your "make sense" magic software into the output from a flock of birds (see link).
-- pertinax, Sep 27 2015


Wouldn't the nodes produce a wider symphony if the body was more flexible and topologically changeable? I am assuming that the sensors have to connect through the material and that spaces break the magic.
-- wjt, Sep 29 2015



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