“Musical Flocks” by Kamolov, Machado and Miguel Cruz
Conference:
Type(s):
Entry Number: 73
Title:
- Musical Flocks
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Abstract:
Musical Flocks is a project in the field of music visualization. It produces animations by simulating the behavior of agents that react to the sound of music. Additionally, swarm-like behavior is attained by following the rules of separation, alignment and cohesion (Reynolds, 1987). This process produces reactive animations and static artifacts that constitute abstract representations of the pieces, with different genres resulting in artifacts with distinctive visual properties (see Figure 1).
References:
1. Reynolds, C., 1987. Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model. Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH ’87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference), ACM, pp. 25–34.
2. Bown, O., 2008. Beads {online}. Available at: <www.beadsproject.net> {Accessed 16 December 2012}.
Additional Images:
![©Ruslan Kamolov, Penousal Machado, and Pedro Miguel Cruz](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2013-Poster-73-Kamolov_Musical-Flocks-04.jpg)
Acknowledgements:
This research is partially funded by FEDER through POFC – COMPETE, project VisualyzARt with reference QREN 23201.