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j1-2k8-mtH02: Kepler's Orrery
Kepler's Orrery is a generative music system that uses gravity equations to "compose" and play music. Start with planets (or stars or particles) that each have mass, position, and velocity, then run a n-body gravity simulator to make them move. They attract each other, accelerate, swirl around, and slingshot off each other. Sometimes they collide, and that's what plays the music.  Aug. 1, 2008

j1-2k7-mtW06: Kepler's Orrery - Generative Music of the Planets
Kepler's Orrery is an applet that creates generative music based on a gravity simulator. Rocks, bodies, and mutators create a unique blend of sound for each arrangement of bodies it starts with. In this mini-talk, creator Simran Gleason shows how it works Jul. 20, 2007