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added summary of each sense for the joint.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:51:13 -0500
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3 * Brainstorming different sensors and effectors.
5 Every sense that we have should have an effector that changes what
6 that sense (or others who have that sense) experiences.
8 ** Classic Senses
9 | Sense | Effector |
10 |------------------------------+---------------------------------|
11 | Vision | Variable Coloration |
12 | Hearing | Speech |
13 | Proprioception | Movement |
14 | Smell/Taste (Chemoreception) | Pheromones |
15 | Touch | Movement / Controllable Texture |
16 | Acceleration | Movement |
17 | Balance (sense gravity) | Movement |
19 - New Senses/Effectors
20 - Levitation
21 - Telekinesis
22 - control of gravity within a certain radius
23 - speed up/slow time
24 - object creation/destruction
25 - future-sight -- step the simulation forward a few ticks, gather
26 sensory data, then supply this data for the creature as one of its
27 actual senses.
29 - Symbol Sense
30 Where objects in the world can be queried for description /
31 symbols.
33 - Symbol Marking
34 The ability to mark objects in the world with your own descriptions
35 and symbols.
37 - Vision
38 Distinguish the polarization of light
39 Color
40 Movement
42 * project ideas
43 - HACKER for writing muscle-control programs : Presented with
44 low-level muscle control/ sense API, generate higher level programs
45 for accomplishing various stated goals. Example goals might be
46 "extend all your fingers" or "move your hand into the area with
47 blue light" or "decrease the angle of this joint". It would be
48 like Sussman's HACKER, except it would operate with much more data
49 in a more realistic world. Start off with "calisthenics" to
50 develop subroutines over the motor control API. This would be the
51 "spinal chord" of a more intelligent creature. The low level
52 programming code might be a turning machine that could develop
53 programs to iterate over a "tape" where each entry in the tape
54 could control recruitment of the fibers in a muscle.
55 - Make a virtual computer in the virtual world which with which the
56 creature interacts using its fingers to press keys on a virtual
57 keyboard. The creature can access the internet, watch videos, take
58 over the world, anything it wants.
59 - Make virtual instruments like pianos, drums, etc that it learns to
60 play.
61 - make a joint that figures out what type of joint it is (range of
62 motion)
68 * goals
70 ** have to get done before Winston
71 - [X] write an explanation for why greyscale bitmaps for senses is
72 appropriate -- 1/2 day
73 - [X] muscle control -- day
74 - [X] proprioception sensor map in the style of the other senses -- day
75 - [X] refactor integration code to distribute to each of the senses
76 -- day
77 - [X] create video showing all the senses for Winston -- 2 days
78 - [X] spell checking !!!!!
79 - [X] send package to friends for critiques -- 2 days
80 - [X] fix videos that were encoded wrong, test on Internet Explorer.
81 - [X] redo videos vision with new collapse code
82 - [X] find a topology that looks good. (maybe nil topology?)
83 - [X] fix red part of touch cube in video and image
84 - [X] write summary of project for Winston \
85 - [X] project proposals for Winston \
86 - [X] additional senses to be implemented for Winston | -- 2 days
87 - [X] send Winston package /
89 ** would be cool to get done before Winston
90 - [X] enable greyscale bitmaps for touch -- 2 hours
91 - [X] use sawfish to auto-tile sense windows -- 6 hours
92 - [X] sawfish keybinding to automatically delete all sense windows
93 - [ ] proof of concept C sense manipulation -- 2 days
94 - [ ] proof of concept GPU sense manipulation -- week
95 - [ ] Fourier view of sound -- 2 or 3 days
96 - [ ] dancing music listener -- 1 day, depends on Fourier
97 - [ ] uberjar cortex demo
99 ** don't have to get done before winston
100 - [X] write tests for integration -- 3 days
101 - [X] usertime/gametime clock HUD display -- day
102 - [ ] find papers for each of the senses justifying my own
103 representation -- week
104 - [X] show sensor maps in HUD display? -- 4 days
105 - [X] show sensor maps in AWT display? -- 2 days
106 - [X] upgrade to clojure 1.3, replace all defvars with new def
107 - [ ] common video creation code.
109 * jMonkeyEngine ideas
110 - [ ] video showing bullet joints problem
111 - [ ] add mult for Matrix to Ray
112 - [ ] add iterator constructs to Vector3f, Vector2f, Triangle,
113 Matrix3f, Matrix4f, etc
115 ;;In the elder days of Art,
116 ;;Builders wrought with greatest care
117 ;;Each minute and unseen part;
118 ;;For the Gods see everywhere.