"But what's new
here is this art exists in a space that's accessible and interactively enabled
worldwide. Second Life is a "sim," otherwise known as a simulated environment,
in which anything can be built using objects called "prims," or primitives. And
the tools available in Second Life to design the prims allow for staggering
effects: SL artworks are unfettered by real-life constraints on shape, size or
materials; artwork may have unlimited forms and properties, and may be easily
or continuously modified; visitors may teleport or fly into and "through" the
art, which can scale, replicate, shift or change in any way its creator wishes,
at any speed and within any time frame." [1]
In the recent movie "AVATAR" of James Cameron,
Jack SULLY is a wheel chaired man who interacts by virtual reality with the
Navi's habitants of PANDORA to simulate his ability to communicate with virtual
creatures that are not imitating human appearances but just their behavior in
their virtual planet.
Simulation is not only mimesis of human
appearance in AVATAR, but we can see a large mix between real bodies, virtual
bodies and environments.
According
Emmanuelle GLON[2], virtual
worlds are simulations, while they review a cognitive process underlying three
types of activities:
1. The construction of perceptual images in the absence of
appropriate stimuli
2. The creation of psychological and behavioral situations
3. The re-creative
activity award of mental states
When we see the making of this movie, we can
see the huge imagination of the director and the sophisticated technology to
manage this filmmaking.
Cameron has created virtual cameras that films
human bodies and visualize them as virtual avatars on the screen. Avatar's
facial expressing are made by linking real actors with the technology of motion
capture which has developed J-C and his the first one who created captors for
the human facial animations and the virtual cameras.
[1]http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28834/
[2] MORIZOT
Jacques et PUIVET Roger , Dictionnaire d'esthétique et de la philosophie
de l'art, Paris : Armand Colin, 2007, article d'Emmanuelle GLON, p.
405
--- En date de : Jeu 21.1.10, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> a écrit :
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Objet: [Yasmin_discussions] Simulation Discussion
À: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <Yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Date: Jeudi 21 Janvier 2010, 16h37
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