Comments on: Dancing for Engineers http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/ Mike's in China, doing tech stuff Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:18:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/#comment-493 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:12:57 +0000 http://mpdaugherty.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/#comment-493 Hey Tom – I hadn’t heard of musicplasma before; looks like it’s down now? I saw an article on it, though, so I think I know what you’re referring to.

Unfortunately, since I started the salsa wiki, none of my girlfriends have been interested in dancing at all, so it’s sort of languished along with my dancing. Feel free to take over! Or even switch to something else; I never liked wikidot much…

I think a nice visualization of each of the states and their connection would be awesome. You could even have a filter so that you can choose the level of moves, etc., so that the display doesn’t become overly crowded, then you could print it out.

]]> By: Tom http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/#comment-491 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:13:04 +0000 http://mpdaugherty.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/#comment-491 Interesting post – It’s something that i’ve been thinking about – how to learn moves, how they link, and being able to link them together, and pull moves that fit at the time, remembering a move or moves to do in time.
My take on it is that the finite states are say the end of the 8th beat, and the end of the 4th beat (if dancing on1) – ie just ready to start a new move, and midway through. So the finite positions (open hold, closed hold etc), with the basic being a fundamental looping state.

My initial thought was that you’ve got a visually displayable graph with the nodes capable of being displayed as a photograph /visual description of the state say of a move just before it starts. – the line being the move, with length of line showing the time to finish the move (likely 8 beats).

Beginners know some – the open position/closed position to start/end the basic/mambo, cucaracha, open break for example. A hammerlock would be where you go from one state to another.

Not sure about the wiki dot site – I was thinking something akin to musicplasma, but with videos for each node (with the initial frame showing the starting position of the move).

Any thoughts?

]]> By: Ling http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/#comment-252 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:17:33 +0000 http://mpdaugherty.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/dancing-for-engineers/#comment-252 this is soooooo geeky. but clever. and i like it.

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