An image is a lonely place

Luciano Notarfrancesco luciano2 at mail.ru
Fri Oct 8 22:01:00 UTC 1999


I have put an image with a lot of demos in

	http://members.xoom.com/koblac/speech-Sep29.tar.gz

It's big... and it not very up to date now...
Tell me if you take a look at it.

Regards,
Luciano.-

> Whoa! Do you have any demos (images) of this stuff?! Sounds really cool, I'd
> love to see how far you got.
> 
>   Andreas
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> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Luciano Notarfrancesco
> > Reply To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Sent: 	Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:47 PM
> > To: 	Tom Morgan
> > Cc: 	recipient list not shown
> > Subject: 	Re: An image is a lonely place
> > 
> > 
> > Tom,
> > I've implemented:
> > 	o. speech synthesis (text-to-speech and singing voices)
> > 	o. simple gestures synthesis (2D faces, SouthPark-like toons)
> > 	o. 3D facial animation (the Waters' muscles model)
> > I haven't released it yet, but if you want anything of this just e-mail me
> > and I will send you a changeset. I think this stuff might be useful for
> > you if you want to implement avatars.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Luciano.-
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Morgan <tmorgan at acm.org>
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 07:58:02 -0400
> > Subject: An image is a lonely place
> > 
> > > I've been noticing how lonesome it is inside an image.
> > > 
> > > There are lots of strong place based/community elements
> > > which surround Squeak.  These are currently formed
> > > by the basic networked apps of email, the discussion Swiki,
> > > the mail archives, and so on.
> > > 
> > > There is now lots of machinery which is available  which
> > > would allow basic collaborative support right inside
> > > a running image (and there are some spacey ones imagineable
> > > using the 3D stuff that feel like 'Snowcrash')
> > > 
> > > The kinds of things that I have in mind revolve around
> > > establishing a sense of 'place', which is shared, 'embodiment'
> > > of you the user explicitly some how in the interface and
> > > some amount of 'awareness' of the presence of
> > > others in the shared place, all done with a light enough
> > > touch that we don't end up with avatar fashion shows.
> > > 
> > > In this picture, an Morphic book wouldn't be found by
> > > reaching out across the network and loading it; instead, there'd be
> > > a more or less far away part of your image (maybe
> > > dressed up as an Alice world) that would let you wander
> > > around and find the book you wanted.  Perahaps the
> > > author would hand it to you, if he happened to be around.
> > > 
> > > While working, instead of the discussion Swiki, there'd be
> > > small knots of others, gathered around places of interest
> > > to them.  You could glance around and see if anyone
> > > was nearby, possibly interested in what you were up to.
> > > 
> > > Over the course of a few years, I have seen naive users
> > > comfortably navigate incredibly complex  graph structures, when
> > > they are presented with a place based metaphor.
> > > 
> > > I am not sure how universally appealing these interface
> > > metaphors are, but they seem to be captivating for
> > > at least some portion of the population.
> > > 
> > > I remember one posting about trying to incorporate the ICQ
> > > protocols into Squeak.
> > > 
> > > Are there others padding around this collaborative territory?
> > > 
> > >    ...Tom M
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 





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