AI goes to opera

Terres rares : a cyber-opera

In years 2020-21-22 , by a stroke of luck, i was involved in the design and creation of a cyber-opera, Terres Rares (rare earth elements), as a consultant in IT, robotics and AI.

The initial idea, apart from worrying about plundering the planet, came from experiments in artificial intelligence where researchers from the CEA-LIST of Grenoble in France had the idea of dreaming up a network of artificial neurons to allow memory to consolidate and not to forget old information when new information arrives.

More on the subject with researcher Marina Reyboz interview.

AI scans the memory of the disaster survivor, a cyborg

3D animations

I also had to realize some graphic animations to illustrate vocal exchanges of two AIs talking in the background about a rover accident and the expedition members behaviors.

A simulated rover at the edge of the fault
waits for a priority order to move forward

As a wink, the computer view goes
from old PDP 11 up to quantum computer

Technical skills

The design was done in javascript with the 3D helper P5.JS which has a WEBGL interface.
The rendering was done on two full HD superimposed screens in portrait mode.

JS Animation framework available on Github

As this work needs to develop animations with multipart components and chained scenarios, the know-how and how-to had been documented and published to Github public:

More on “Terres Rares”

Arts et Science web site : Terres Rares 2020-2022

RARE EARTH Cyber Opera Trailer

PEP-INNO