Busy days, the weather's nice

MIT is working on natural language to code visualisation. The example used is Pacman, where the highest level definition of a program is sketched through some banter with a natural language agent. I remember chatting with Riian Van Schoor a while ago, who's created an MSN Instant Messenger interface to book tickets and search for flights, an agent in this sense is an interface. More so, if such a tool could be used to question and assess information for requirements, it would pseudo-code the main bits, leaving just finer details to nail down.

And life's not all work (far from it!) but I'll hold some info! I expanded my DVD collection with my masterpiece favourite The Big Blue, and also bought Thelma & Louise and The Usual Suspects. I have this mad idea about doing a short black and white film with just hand silheouettes, i.e. all the fingers and the wrist as an actor and writing a short script and filming the shadows on a white background. The trial movie will be Cashier at a supermarket checkout where one hand does the cashier and the other is the buyer. The other night, I realised how real the movement of our fingers/wrists/palms can be. Their shadows look like the faces of cartoon characters on a wall.

Posted by amitkoth at April 3, 2005 11:40 AM | TrackBack