LiveScience.com - Live Insects Challenge Humans in Bizarre Computer Game Remember packman? "Instead of computer code, I wanted to have animals controlling the ghosts. To enable this, I built a real maze for the animals to walk around in, with its proportions and layout matching the maze of the computer game. The position of the animals in the maze is detected using colour-tracking via a camera, and linked to the ghosts in the game. This way, the real animals are directly controlling the virtual ghosts." Crickets' tendency to flee from vibration (a sign of approaching predators) allows human players to interact with them.
2006-07-14
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