1. Absolutely brilliant! Such a wonderful piece of art.

Thanks for sharing this one

Posted at 6:32PM on Jul 8th 2007 by neural

2. Glad you enjoyed it, neural :) I had a lot of fun exploring it this morning myself!

Posted at 7:05PM on Jul 8th 2007 by Thea

3. It's not even close to realistic.... which is wind created by the sun, cause air pressurize from one side of the world as other side is night. In SL, it's just purely random on splines path.

However, the whole acoustic resonator deal, that's pretty damn neat with SL's wind pattern. Should make me wonder how much difference it does in real life's winds.

Posted at 7:40PM on Jul 8th 2007 by Nacon

4. I don't know much about how realistic it is (hopefully Edo will see this post and chime in), but I am glad you found acoustic resonator interesting :)

Posted at 10:11PM on Jul 8th 2007 by Thea

5. Yes Nacon, indeed. The wind in SL is a huge simplification of the wind on planet earth, but it's still one of the most complex 'god-given' phenomena in SL.

About trying to transfer such a work to rl: The fluctuations of the wind in SL are much faster in time and shorter in distance than in rl: In SL you can easily have oposite winddirections just 100 meters apart, and the windsituation can be totally different every 15 minutes. I was very aware of that aspect when designing this work: This aspect creates much more sonic variation during a 5 minutes flight over ± 300 meter distance than it would in rl.

btw, I made a real-life sound-work that has a similar concept but works on light-energy instead of wind-energy. See: http://www.eude.nl/soundinstallations/index.htm#rwl

Posted at 10:45PM on Jul 8th 2007 by Edo Autopoiesis

6. Ahh sweet, comes with video and sounds!

I have to say I like your Inside-The-Oscillator more. It's perfect for such eerie places or something like in a deserted space station in sci-fi movie.

Now you got me thinking about water effect.

Posted at 4:37AM on Jul 9th 2007 by Nacon

7. Wind is a strange thing in SL. While making a hot air balloon, I wanted it to drift with the wind. Unlike real life, where there are prevailing winds over large areas, SL winds shift very frequently and drastically, and vary over small areas. It can be calm and southwest on moment, then hurricane speed and northeast two seconds later.

It's interesting to plot the sim-wide patterns, but wind isn't very useful for ballooning or sailing.

Posted at 9:39AM on Jul 9th 2007 by Cubey