Category: lirec
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Lirec review in Lisbon
Some pictures from the Lirec review last week at INESC-ID in Lisbon. More photos here. A review for an FP7 project is a yearly event where work is presented to independant researchers and the project officer from the EC. In our case it means getting all the robots, scenarios and demonstrations (including Germination X) into…
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Lirec: Facial and body expressions for companions
As part of my research for Germination X, I’ve been reading a Lirec deliverable report on facial and body expressions for companions (robots and graphical characters). It covers a lot of non verbal communication, and is useful for me as it concerns displaying the raw values coming from the FAtiMA AI system in a slightly…
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Germination X: Draw your own plant spirits
Part of our groworld bazaar at Pixelache 2011 was the “draw your own plant spirits” workshop/gallery installation in the Augusta gallery on Suomenlinna island. This was the first event to use the Germination X game in a public setting, and the idea was to get people to help us design characters to represent the layers,…
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Germination X: Relationships
More documentation for the Germination X game – this diagram attempts to explain the relationships between the plant spirits and the plants, and between each other. Green indicates “love”, red indicates “hate”. Each spirit represents a “layer” in permaculture terminology – a collection of plants, for example the CoverSpirit represents the soil cover species such…
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Germination X: Secret mechanisms
I’ve made some graphs to document the underlying processes currently used by Germination X in preparation for the Pixelache workshop. These are not considered required for playing the game of course, but more as a description of how things work now, and hopefully a way to prompt suggestions on improvements and possible new directions. I’ve…
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Germination X: Seasons and Video
As well as featuring a hi scores table (now making it into a real game!), we have most of Lina’s plants in the game, only the dandelion needs replacing from the older version. With the new artwork the difference between the seasons is much more apparent, for example autumn above and spring below. I’ve also…
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Germination X: seasons & companion planting
Starting to get Germination X into shape for next week’s Pixelache festival and the plant spirit drawing workshop which we are doing as part of the groworld bazaar. Lots of new plants, seasons (a year lasts 10 minutes!) and some more complex rules to how well plants grow based on companion planting. Click on the…
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Coimbra Lirec meeting
Cnotinfor hosted the latest Lirec consortium meeting last week in the Portugese town of Coimbra. Cnotinfor are a company researching technology and education, more specifically a system called Little Mozart which teaches children to play music using a character displaying emotional behaviours based on research from the project. I presented the latest version of Germination…
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Plant spirits moving and dancing
Two new plant spirit types, and they can now move and animate, driven by the fatima agent. They travel around the world tiles based on player activity and hover over or around the object causing them the highest emotional reaction. There is a basic attempt to show their emotional state via their animation – smooth…
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Germination X – Plant spirits progress
The FAtiMA minds that will be running the plant spirits are now receiving events from the world – i.e. plants growing, getting ill or starting to fruit affects their emotional state. These events are appraised by FAtiMA’s OCC model, which is named after Ortony, Clore and Collins who proposed it in 1988: “…, we would…