Breathtaking experiment with drones the famous Cirque Du Soleil + video

When the usual household items come to life on the screen (remember the book and the broom from the movies about Harry Potter or almost any Pixar cartoon) is the result of careful animation or painstaking cgi. If it is executed well – representation looks like real magic.





 

But computer images are poorly tolerated in live theater, so researchers in Zurich have created a breathtaking alternative: dancing drones.

Over the last five years, the team at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology (ETH) studied the possibility of "athletic quadcopters" — algorithmizing drones that can solve problems in the same way as it does people. Their research attracted the attention of the famous Cirque Du Soleil. This unexpected partnership has led to the emergence of "Sparked" video without any special effects, which is proud to bring you... a troupe of dancing lampshades.

Lampshades, of course, are dressed in costumes of drones. This four-minute film took off Verity Studios is the brainchild of ETH.

The choreography of this production is the result of a collaborative effort of the algorithms that receive data from robots, and systems of motion capture, working like GPS for the indoors. This data stream is processed by a pair of desktops that can quickly create prototypes of drones movements.

Sparked showcases a fairly simple dance number. However, as developed by the team of ETH algorithms will become increasingly powerful, views, robots can begin to capture the spirit just as performances of Cirque Du Soleil. "We believe that the coming flying machines in the arena and the stage is inevitable," said one of the developers Marcus Hyun. "We just laid the Foundation for that."



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