Sound Panel 5 - Response

The Catia model is a great development for the project. You now have a parametric back end that can drive the design machine. A few notes:

- Random information is good to show that the system works. I don't presume you want to stop there. You need music - existing or to-be-composed. It may be that your casting system is a prompt for the composition of new types of music. And, if the music topography is produced by a machine than perhaps it is read and performed by a machine.

This made me look up "player pianos". They were very cool about 100 years ago. I found this blog post that really applies to your project. Be sure to read it and watch the videos.

http://rhymeoftheunheard.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/thus-spake-pianola-superhuman-music-for-player-piano-by-peter-nelson-king/

This is the actual score that drove the player piano. Note how the system clearly drives both pitch and duration. I can't be sure but the small/large dots may also map to intensity.

The question becomes: how can you connect music information in to Catia to drive the formwork state? What "plays" the score produced? Is there a machine that read your wall and produce music?

Second point: the surface you produced is not really a simulation of a fabric formwork surface right? It just spline manipulation. Try to connect Catia to Maya and see if you can do a proper sim.