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     1 #+title: First attempt at a creature!

     2 #+author: Robert McIntyre

     3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu

     4 #+description: 

     5 #+keywords: simulation, jMonkeyEngine3, clojure

     6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org

     7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org

     8 

     9 * Intro 

    10 So far, I've made the following senses -- 

    11  - Vision

    12  - Hearing

    13  - Touch

    14  - Proprioception

    15 

    16 And one effector: 

    17  - Movement

    18 

    19 However, the code so far has only enabled these senses, but has not

    20 actually implemented them.  For example, there is still a lot of work

    21 to be done for vision. I need to be able to create an /eyeball/ in

    22 simulation that can be moved around and see the world from different

    23 angles. I also need to determine weather to use log-polar or cartesian

    24 for the visual input, and I need to determine how/wether to

    25 disceritise the visual input.

    26 

    27 I also want to be able to visualize both the sensors and the

    28 effectors in pretty pictures. This semi-retarted creature will by my

    29 first attempt at bringing everything together.

    30 

    31 * The creature's body

    32 

    33 Still going to do an eve-like body in blender, but due to problems

    34 importing the joints, etc into jMonkeyEngine3, I',m going to do all

    35 the connecting here in clojure code, using the names of the individual

    36 components and trial and error. Later, I'll maybe make some sort of

    37 creature-building modifications to blender that support whatever

    38 discreitized senses I'm going to make.

    39 

    40 #+name: body-1

    41 #+begin_src clojure 

    42 (ns cortex.silly

    43   "let's play!"

    44   {:author "Robert McIntyre"})

    45 

    46 ;; TODO remove this!

    47 (require 'cortex.import)

    48 (cortex.import/mega-import-jme3)

    49 (use '(cortex world util body hearing touch vision))

    50 

    51 (use '[clojure.contrib [seq :only [find-first]]])

    52 

    53 

    54 (rlm.rlm-commands/help)

    55 

    56 (defn load-blender-model

    57   "Load a .blend file using an asset folder relative path."

    58   [^String model]

    59   (.loadModel

    60    (doto (asset-manager)

    61      (.registerLoader BlenderModelLoader (into-array String ["blend"])))

    62    model))

    63 

    64 

    65 (defn apply-skeleton

    66   "Given an imported blender model, apply the armature using the

    67   following pattern: if two bones are connected and have the same

    68   names as two shapes, connect the shapes with a joint constraint."

    69   [armature-name creature]

    70   

    71 

    72 

    73 #+end_src

    74 

    75 

    76 

    77 * COMMENT generate source

    78 #+begin_src clojure :tangle ../src/cortex/silly.clj

    79 <<body-1>>

    80 #+end_src

    81
author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:23 -0700
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children	fb810a2c50c2