AlphaWolf


Bruce Blumberg
Bill Tomlinson
Marc Downie
Matt Berlin

Jesse Gray
Robert Burke
Damian Isla
Yuri Ivanov
Michael Patrick Johnson
Derek Lyons
Jennie Cochran
Brian Young

Adolph Wong
Geoffrey Beatty

 
     

Alpha Wolf was an exploration into the representations and processes required to allow synthetic characters to learn dynamic social hierarchies. The installation features a pack of virtual wolves who form social relationships with each other. Three people interact with the virtual pack at the same time, each playing the role of one wolf pup in a new litter. Participants direct their pups with a microphone (into which they howl, growl, whine or bark to affect how their pups interact with their packmates) and a mouse (to tell their pups where to go).

Our wolves feature a simple model of social behavior, incorporating learning, emotion, perception and development.


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Projects
 
2002-2003
Dobie T. Coyote
 
2001
alpha wolf
Rover@Home
 
2000
Duncan the
Highland Terrier / Sheep|Dog:
Trial by Eire

MusicCreatures - exchange:
listen:
exchange

 
1999
(void*)
sand:stone
Rufus
 
1998
swamped!