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
> > 
> > 
> > 
>