Registering Observers Structure Evolution - is an experimental virtual sculpture in VRML data format.It is slowly building up by views of people. Each access modificates a size, a shape and a color. The type of change depends on identity of viewer.
The performance had started on Thu May 23 18:00:00 MDT 1997 - at this moment no object existed - just cybervakuum. The born of flower was initiated by the first access. At the beginning the simple form was growing up, changing shape and color, became more complicated.
R O S E performs in Internet server during the days, months and years and people will invoke the changes: day by day different shape and color, day by day bigger structure...
The core of R O S E is cgi script, written in Bourne shell,
executed by every access of the R O S E homepage. The script performs following
actions:
1. searching identity of viewer: loading and scanning data from client computer.
2. changing variables according to identity of client.
3. computing shape and color of ROSE using actual variables, writing VRML
model
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Shapes and colors of
ROSE are changing day by day. Slowly but irreversible. Here you can see some
examples from the first days:
Test run from 24.4. 1997 to 12.5. 1997:
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Evolution from 23.5. to 28.5. 1997:
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Models were archived regurarly by day, later by week. Archiving was stopped by
26.7. 1997. Project was running til the end of the year 2002.
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Hardware (installation):
SGI INDY, 128 MB RAM, 250 MB HDD
Software (installation):
IRIX 6.3, Netscape WWW server, vrml1to2
Realization team:
Petr Svarovsky
Thanks to:
Alias, A|W Graph, Expert Service s.r.o., SGI for
sponzoring
Michal Cilek and Jan Stehlik for support
