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completed debug control of worm.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:29:59 -0400
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rlm@328 2
rlm@155 3 * Brainstorming different sensors and effectors.
rlm@155 4
rlm@155 5 Every sense that we have should have an effector that changes what
rlm@155 6 that sense (or others who have that sense) experiences.
rlm@155 7
rlm@155 8 ** Classic Senses
rlm@155 9 | Sense | Effector |
rlm@155 10 |------------------------------+---------------------------------|
rlm@155 11 | Vision | Variable Coloration |
rlm@155 12 | Hearing | Speech |
rlm@155 13 | Proprioception | Movement |
rlm@306 14 | Smell/Taste (Chemoreception) | Pheromones |
rlm@155 15 | Touch | Movement / Controllable Texture |
rlm@155 16 | Acceleration | Movement |
rlm@155 17 | Balance (sense gravity) | Movement |
rlm@155 18
rlm@155 19 - New Senses/Effectors
rlm@155 20 - Levitation
rlm@306 21 - Telekinesis
rlm@155 22 - control of gravity within a certain radius
rlm@155 23 - speed up/slow time
rlm@155 24 - object creation/destruction
rlm@391 25 - prescience -- step the simulation forward a few ticks, gather
rlm@322 26 sensory data, then supply this data for the creature as one of its
rlm@322 27 actual senses.
rlm@155 28
rlm@155 29 - Symbol Sense
rlm@391 30 Objects in the world can be queried for description /
rlm@155 31 symbols.
rlm@155 32
rlm@155 33 - Symbol Marking
rlm@155 34 The ability to mark objects in the world with your own descriptions
rlm@155 35 and symbols.
rlm@155 36
rlm@155 37 - Vision
rlm@155 38 Distinguish the polarization of light
rlm@155 39 Color
rlm@155 40 Movement
rlm@155 41
rlm@155 42 * project ideas
rlm@155 43 - HACKER for writing muscle-control programs : Presented with
rlm@155 44 low-level muscle control/ sense API, generate higher level programs
rlm@155 45 for accomplishing various stated goals. Example goals might be
rlm@155 46 "extend all your fingers" or "move your hand into the area with
rlm@155 47 blue light" or "decrease the angle of this joint". It would be
rlm@155 48 like Sussman's HACKER, except it would operate with much more data
rlm@306 49 in a more realistic world. Start off with "calisthenics" to
rlm@306 50 develop subroutines over the motor control API. This would be the
rlm@155 51 "spinal chord" of a more intelligent creature. The low level
rlm@155 52 programming code might be a turning machine that could develop
rlm@155 53 programs to iterate over a "tape" where each entry in the tape
rlm@155 54 could control recruitment of the fibers in a muscle.
rlm@155 55 - Make a virtual computer in the virtual world which with which the
rlm@155 56 creature interacts using its fingers to press keys on a virtual
rlm@155 57 keyboard. The creature can access the internet, watch videos, take
rlm@155 58 over the world, anything it wants.
rlm@306 59 - Make virtual instruments like pianos, drums, etc that it learns to
rlm@155 60 play.
rlm@155 61 - make a joint that figures out what type of joint it is (range of
rlm@155 62 motion)
rlm@155 63
rlm@155 64 * goals
rlm@155 65
rlm@306 66 ** have to get done before Winston
rlm@306 67 - [X] write an explanation for why greyscale bitmaps for senses is
rlm@306 68 appropriate -- 1/2 day
rlm@155 69 - [X] muscle control -- day
rlm@155 70 - [X] proprioception sensor map in the style of the other senses -- day
rlm@193 71 - [X] refactor integration code to distribute to each of the senses
rlm@155 72 -- day
rlm@302 73 - [X] create video showing all the senses for Winston -- 2 days
rlm@322 74 - [X] spell checking !!!!!
rlm@322 75 - [X] send package to friends for critiques -- 2 days
rlm@306 76 - [X] fix videos that were encoded wrong, test on Internet Explorer.
rlm@302 77 - [X] redo videos vision with new collapse code
rlm@273 78 - [X] find a topology that looks good. (maybe nil topology?)
rlm@273 79 - [X] fix red part of touch cube in video and image
rlm@322 80 - [X] write summary of project for Winston \
rlm@322 81 - [X] project proposals for Winston \
rlm@322 82 - [X] additional senses to be implemented for Winston | -- 2 days
rlm@322 83 - [X] send Winston package /
rlm@155 84
rlm@306 85 ** would be cool to get done before Winston
rlm@155 86 - [X] enable greyscale bitmaps for touch -- 2 hours
rlm@155 87 - [X] use sawfish to auto-tile sense windows -- 6 hours
rlm@155 88 - [X] sawfish keybinding to automatically delete all sense windows
rlm@155 89 - [ ] proof of concept C sense manipulation -- 2 days
rlm@155 90 - [ ] proof of concept GPU sense manipulation -- week
rlm@306 91 - [ ] Fourier view of sound -- 2 or 3 days
rlm@306 92 - [ ] dancing music listener -- 1 day, depends on Fourier
rlm@269 93 - [ ] uberjar cortex demo
rlm@155 94
rlm@155 95 ** don't have to get done before winston
rlm@322 96 - [X] write tests for integration -- 3 days
rlm@205 97 - [X] usertime/gametime clock HUD display -- day
rlm@273 98 - [X] show sensor maps in HUD display? -- 4 days
rlm@273 99 - [X] show sensor maps in AWT display? -- 2 days
rlm@322 100 - [X] upgrade to clojure 1.3, replace all defvars with new def
rlm@261 101 - [ ] common video creation code.
rlm@155 102
rlm@234 103 * jMonkeyEngine ideas
rlm@234 104 - [ ] video showing bullet joints problem
rlm@234 105 - [ ] add mult for Matrix to Ray
rlm@306 106 - [ ] add iterator constructs to Vector3f, Vector2f, Triangle,
rlm@234 107 Matrix3f, Matrix4f, etc
rlm@234 108
rlm@164 109 ;;In the elder days of Art,
rlm@164 110 ;;Builders wrought with greatest care
rlm@164 111 ;;Each minute and unseen part;
rlm@164 112 ;;For the Gods see everywhere.
rlm@376 113
rlm@376 114 * misc
rlm@376 115 - use object tracking on moving objects to derive good static
rlm@376 116 detectors and achieve background separation
rlm@376 117 - temporal scale pyramids. this can help in verb recognition by
rlm@376 118 making verb identification time-scale independent (up to a certian
rlm@391 119 factor)