Of Muppets, Metaballs, and Ballroom Dance!
summary
Covers concrete prototypes and what actually failed or shipped: particle-and-spring bodies, a Spore-like secondary-motion system, and a Google-backed webcam virtual costumes prototype that never shipped because body detection failed and was faked with Perlin noise; experiments use TensorFlow/PoseNet, Leap Motion and Oculus hand tracking as inputs. Demonstrates a half-working emergent choreography idea called dance tribbles, lots of particle demos, and several abandoned projects (bit rot) so expect demos and messy prototypes not polished results.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 3:11Casual Creators
- 3:47What Is Creativity
- 5:26Problems and Creativity
- 6:45Creature Creator
- 8:14How Do We Get People To Be Creative
- 12:32Secondary Motion
- 13:33Dancing with the Computer
- 13:45Human Computer Dance Interaction
- 15:27Marx Brothers
- 15:52Costumes
- 17:40Fred Astaire
- 19:53Muppets Have Almost no Facial Animation
- 22:31Lumen Ai
- 24:55Hand Tracking
- 28:05Waldo System
