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This note is primarily about media systems, but should connect with the physical interior design, furniture and lighting etc.

Thanks Pete for the proposed media systems architecture summary.  I started to edit the doc but then bogged down because the architecture was computer-centric, and it’s clearer as a diagram.   

 

Instead of designing around the 2 Mac Minis and the Mac Pro computers I’d like to design the architecture around relatively autonomous i/o devices :

Effectively a network of:

Lamps (for now addressed via DMX dimmers), floor and desk lamps as needed to provide comfortable lighting 

5 Wifi GoPro audio-video cameras (3 in BY, 1 Stauffer, 1 iStage)

xOSC-connected sensors and stepper motors,  ask Byron 

1 black Mac Pro on internet switch

processing video streams, e.g. extracting video feature emitted in OSC

1 Mac Minis on internet switch

running lighting master control Max patch, ozone media state engine (later)

1 Mac Mini on internet switch

processing audio, e.g. extracting audio features emitted in OSC

1 iPad running Ozone control panel under Mira

1 Internet switch in Synthesis incubator room for drop-in laptop processing

8 x transducers (or Genelecs — distinct from use in lab or iStage, I prefer not to have “visible” speaker boxes or projectors in BY — perhaps flown in corners or inserted inside Kevin’s boxes, but not on tables or the floor )

The designer-inhabitants should be able to physically move the lamps and GoPros and stepper motor’ed objects around the room, replugging into few cabled interface devices (dimmer boxes) as necessary.

Do the GoPro’s have audio in?   Can we run contact or boundary or air mic into one ?

We could run ethernet from our 3 computers to the nearest wall ethernet port?

Drop-in researchers should be able to receive via OSC whatever sensor data streams (e.g. video and audio feature streams cooked by the fixed black MacPro and audio Mini)

and also emit audio / video / control OSC into this BY network. 

DITTO iStage.

Can we organize an architecture session Thursday sometime ?  

I’m sorry since I have to get my mother into post-accident care here in Washington DC I don’t know when I’ll be free.

Perhaps Thursday sometime between 2 and 5 PM Phoenix?  I will make myself available for this because I’d like to take up a more active role now thanks to your smart work.

Looking forward to it!

Xin Wei

PS. Please let’s email our design-build to post@synthesis.posthaven.com  so we can capture the design process and build on accumulated knowledge in http://synthesis.posthaven.com