on yahoo answers a person said

I am in a major dance competion can someone choreograph a whole routine for me to "insside the tornado" by amanda marshall. I would like turns and leaps ,so that i can impress the judges. Its the Americas dance nationals. If you could post it as soon as possible that would be gr eat. Its a modern solo routine. Choreograph the whole thing please

well I dutifully looked up dance notation on wikipedia to see if this could be accomplished

far better would be to dance around with a wii then give her the result

I think wii dance notation would be nifty
-- beanangel, Mar 27 2008

The yahoo.answers query http://answers.yaho...080224163720AAFgvNQ
No extra points for guessing which reply is Treon's. [jutta, Mar 27 2008]

So, use a wii to record movement patterns of dance? Cool. You might need a few, strapped to various limbs.

Just out of curiosity, shouldn't this guy have figured out his own dance routine?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 27 2008


Gal. And, yeah! Where do they find these people?

Recording a choreography with an accelerometer-- It would be roughly like trying to record your favorite band with a sound meter. You're missing most of what makes it interesting.
-- jutta, Mar 27 2008


this way we skip writing notation

the wii records then the software shows the dancer pictures that she can practice to
-- beanangel, Mar 27 2008


And if the dancer happens to be a small white box hovering in mid-air, her movements will be well-described by that.
-- jutta, Mar 27 2008


I am in the awkward position of agreeing with [Treon]. I can sort of imagine a set of position sensors or accelerometers that could be used to record movements with sufficient accuracy to allow software to reconstruct the dance animatively.

On the other hand, maybe a video? But then again, the recipient could wear a complementary set of attachments that would detect how far he/she was adhering to the recorded pattern.

Actually, I'm agreeing with Treon only because I'd like to encourage him to make a YouTube video dancing naked with twelve Wiis strapped to his body.

I emphasize that this is not the same as actually wanting to watch said video.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 27 2008


Animation studios have already solved a similar problem; they do it by filming markers attached to the dancer's body. If you're actually trying to record human movement, that's a relatively cheap solution. (Use multiple cameras to reconstruct in 3D). If you're trying to do something fun with a single WII, having an animation editor that allows you to use an accelerometer or some sort of stick as input would be great - but let's take it for the fragment it is.
-- jutta, Mar 27 2008


As [jutta] said, a great many actions will go unrecorded with accelerometer(s) alone. That said, communication of dance is an area sorely under-explored by vector algebra.
-- Texticle, Mar 27 2008



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