Kites Flying In and Out of Space
This virtual-reality art piece is a study of the
physical properties and replication of the flying
kinetic artwork of Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier. The
complexity involved with calculating and rendering
data is facilitated by distributed computing over
high-speed networks.
Because the calculations for these kinetic art pieces
(kites) is so computationally intensive, a single PC
can only support the simulation of one kite. To
support the many kites flown at iGrid, collaborators
with computing resources around the world are performing
the physically-based kite simulations at their home
institutions and then streaming the results of the
calculations, in real time, to Amsterdam. In essence,
this is grid computing for arts.
Acknowledgment:
Quanta.
Collaborators
Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier, independent artist, France, and visiting artist, Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia Tech Foundation, USA
Tom Coffin, NCSA/UIUC, USA
Ray Kass, Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia Tech Foundation, USA
Ron Kriz, Rob Strouse, Virginia Tech, USA
Francis Thompson, School of the Arts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA
Shalini Venkataraman, Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Paul Weilinga, SARA Computing and Networking Services, The Netherlands
Ulrike Kasper, Sorbonne and La Cite Museum de Musique Paris, France
Kukimoto Nobuyuki, Virtual Reality Development and Research Laboratory, Tohwa University, Japan
Kurichi Kumar, Jie Wei, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Brian Corrie, New Media Innovation Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Contact
Tom Coffin
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu
http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ART/MATISSE/