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The S3 Project (Sights and Sounds of Science) is a competition organized every year by the University of Chicago Materials Center. The goal of this project is to establish a dialog between art and science, and to pose the questions: Where does science turn into art? Where does art enter science? In 2005, my entry entitled "The piano and the stairs" won the second prize in the Sights of Science category. Part of the sound you can hear during the video comes from a song in the Life Music CD, by J. Dunn and M. A. Clark. They composed all the songs in this CD by "sonifying" the amino acid sequences of different proteins. They used a correspondence between the 20-letter amino acid code and the musical scale. For more information about their work, check this website. For the 3D modeling part of this work, I used the scripting capabilities of the open source animation package blender. That is, instead of the traditional method of modeling the objects by "hand", all the geometry was defined proceduraly. In this way, objects of great complexity can be built just by adjusting the appropriate parameters in the generating code. Here is the python script that created the protein shapes seen in this video. Also, blender has a module (VSE, the Video Sequence Editor) that allows to do non-linear video editing. The VSE was used to create the final rendering. Click on the image below
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