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(Linking to an NPR Post ABOUT THIS, I added:)

I remember when OMNI magazine had an article about a fiction-writing artificial intelligence named Racter.

Elsewhere today I on Facebook I linked to an article about a thesis-writing app that has suddenly become a tool for abuse among scientific scholarly “authors”.

Allow me to connect some more dots here. Upstairs, I have a lectern dictionary I snitched from my brother, who acquired it in a neighbor’s garage sale. One of the features of this dictionary is a bibliography of the World’s Great Books, as judged in the 1950s when the dictionary was compiled. Over 2500 books are included, all now public domain.

In theory, a battery of artificial intelligences can figure out all the story genres you like, and then mine the public domain for paradigms on which to construct new material especially for you, in manners that particularly appeal to you. They would make a whole new canon—just for you.

( Cobbled-Together Old School Graphic Under This )

This picture postcard isn't a photograph.

Nor is it a painting.

This is a computer model. In 3D.

( The Sino-American War Is Here--In First-Person Shooter Form )

GLORIOUS MISSION, the official video wargame from the People's Liberation Army.

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With My Luck, One Of These. Tho' I'm more of a sim guy, so it'd be more like a dream machine in my driveway, be it car, mecha or aerospacecraft.

Another Idea I Have NO WAY To Exploit

The other day, the news had a story about two local high school kids who were using a Kinect to develop orthotics (replacement limbs and other such devices) technology.

I just had a more commercial idea, spurred by a conversation at

ps238principal.

In theory a Kinect can be programmed to take your measurements for apparel sizing. This could even be incorporated into a game software so kids can try being fashion designers. But the "killer app" would be with actual clothiers. They could request this data from customers, and then use it to build virtual mannekins upon which to show off their products.

I don't own an Xbox or a Kinect. I don't know their language. I don't know anybody in the programming or games industry. I do know some people in fashion, but they are all low-tech. Where can I take this idea?

( Race Injection, For PCs )

( So Have Another Game Video Trailer! )

And the word is Lusonema. It is the next step after Machinema/Machinima in that the video game PLAYER physically becomes a live action actor in the "movie" generated by the game.

How? One thing I hope to do with the flight sim cockpit project is to set up video cameras (some static, some with motion tracking) around me to record my actions in operating the simulator. I'd also have a microphone (possibly as part of a headset or helmet rig) to add my speech to the record.

In theory, a real-time compositing can be done in which I can be emulated inside the pilot's compartment of my virtual machine in the game, or in any playback "films" created from the game data records.

I bet people are already doing it. But if they aren't, I want to try for myself to see if it can be done.

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There will always be a need for the kind of games that are simple but engaging. Bejeweled, for example--which is my mother's favorite.

I think the nexus of gaming and social networking will progress to higher levels. Perhaps there will be ways to have a character that is you that you can plug into a variety of game genres.

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It was a coin-op version of Dogfight that was common around Pittsburgh at the end of the Seventies. Never got to play it long enough to truly get an opinion on it.

( The Best I Can Hope For Is Some Of THIS...Someday ).

Two flight sim trailers behind the above cut.

( Vroom )

( Boom N Zoom )

Hey.

This season there are all sorts of ads on TV from IBM about how they're developing software systems that can so analyse written language to nail down meaning that they could possibly beat Jeopardy!'s double-entendre-laden game model.

I'm intrigued, but not so concerned yet.

The reason being that I wonder if anybody has found a way to analyse "tone of voice".

On DeviantArt, there is a worksheet created by Nancy Lorenz called "25 Essential Expressions Challenge", intended to train cartoonists and comic artists in designing characters that are consistant no matter what mood they are in, but still easy to read mood-wise.

The Expressions:
* Happy * Sad * Pleased * Angry * Confused * Tired * Surprised/Shocked * Irritated * WTF?! * Triumphant * Afraid * Bereft * Flirty * Serious/Interested * Silly * Hollow/Blank * Incredulous * Confident * Fierce * Despondent * Impaired * Raging * Ironic/Sarcastic * Disgusted * Ill/Nauseous

Now, in theory each and every one of those Expressions corresponds to a tone of voice, as spoken or as heard. If we can get artificial intelligences to both recognize just those 25, and respond correctly to those, we'll have come a very very long way toward fulfilling the technology's potential.

Besides, I wish Xtranormal could upgrade its dialogue system to include expressions as the above. Not only would it make the resulting videos more fun to watch, it would make it more attractive to use Xtranormal.

FP

( Embedded Now Because I Don't Have The Time To Watch It Now )

Demos of new racing games for 2011, via YouTube.

( Here's Another One! )

Aussie Stock Car Racing.

( One New, One Some Years Old )

( Somebody Came Up With A Very Clever Hack! )

As it happens, I still have King Kong's keyboard, and I know it still works...heh heh heh...

I've signed up with the website for Dassault Systemes and will soon download what I can of the 3DVIA family of software--what's available FREE of course. Of course, I'm completely out of my depth...but what else is new?

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