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...used Poser software (originally designed for gamers) to generate movement, and incorporated ideas like algorithms and cognitive mapping into his work. In Sulphur 16 (1998), his dancers performed among spectral computer-generated figures, as if in a human-scale chess game. In Nemesis (2002), inspired in part by insect behavior, his dancers dueled with prosthetic steel arm extensions to a soundtrack incorporating mobile-phone conversations...
...jugglers, Miss Massachusetts, a South African flag, and loud, colorful gentlemen in drag ushered Charlize Theron through the Square yesterday in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ annual Woman of the Year parade. Sandwiched between two actors—a belly dancer and a yellow-coifed drag queen wearing insect antenna—the Oscar-winning actress shouted to the driver of the orange Bentley convertible in which she rode. “I did the ‘Italian Job,’” she said. “Do you want me to take over...
Shang said she is excited about the implications of insect microrobotics both for the engineering field and the study of insect flight mechanics...
Though this subject has been studied extensively, Shang said, in the past researchers either had to catch an insect and videotape it or simulate insects’ wing movements using a computer...
Microrobotics “bridges computational and experimental work on insect flight,” Shang said...