I began thinking about the data obtained from the Portland Square building (in Plymouth University) using the Arch-OS system, could this data represent the DNA of the building. The system/data almost acts as a way of recording the buildings make up, its activity and a way of seeing how the building works.
I pondered on the idea of representing this DNA as audio. Whilst crawling the Internet i discovered a brilliant piece of software that converts DNA structures into midi sequences. Bio2MIDI by Algorithmic Arts.
I firstly began by fetching a set of results from the Arch-OS feeds page and returned the following results:
0 19.95 0 31.6 0 33.9 202.48 -245.08 -213.96 -269 229.64 111.14 2 156.14 42.59 19.7 58.29 23.13 56 21.95 64.25 12.52 2.82 20.25 21.05 16.89 20.48 21.25 22.12 19.88 21.03 21.39 18.73 0 4.09 17.59 71.61 4.17 243.64
Obviously this didn’t resemble any DNA structure at the moment it is a group of data sets which have no relevance to a DNA structure. For this to work i would need to construct an algorithm of defining a 10 character structure for example “ASDVVDFDDP”.
To encode the new DNA structure i formulated an algorithm which would replace numbers and characters with letters.
Before you notice it i have left out 14.
- 0 = A
- 1 = B
- 2 = C
- 3 = D
- 4 = E
- 5 = F
- 6 = G
- 7 = H
- 8 = I
- 9 = J
- 10 = K
- 11 = L
- 12 = N
- 13 = O
- 15 = Q
- 16 = R
- 17 = S
- 18 = T
- 19 = U
- 20 = V
- 21 = W
- 22 = X
- 23 = Y
- 24 = Z
- . = P
- - = M
Using this structure the original data set produced these results:
aupjfabpg addpqvcpej imcefpaimx dpjgmcgjxj pgelbpbecq gpqecpfjup ffipcjypof gwpjfgepcf npfccpicvp cfwpafrpij vpeiwpcfxp pnupiiwpad wpdjtphdae pajspfjhbp gbepszdpge
After putting it into the Bio2Midi converter the following file was created.
Click here to listen to the Arch-OS-DNA-Midi
Tags: 4d, data art, data dna, data representation, data visulisation, idat, idat307, plymouth
