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Re: LDraw Animation - Why MPD?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:00:33 GMT
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I wonder if anyone remembers the 80s game "Story Machine" from Spinnaker
Software (publishers of "Face Maker" and other silly products.)
This program acted out the sentences you typed in. It was a kind of
self-illustrating text adventure. For example typing "The boy walked to the
tree" meant that the two characters would materialize out of nothing and the boy
would walk over next to the house. Or you could make the tree run to the boy (it
had animated legs.) There were a limited number of nouns and verbs, about 30 in
all. As you typed (or erased), your story was recorded for replay later. My
stories ended with the terrible tree eating everything on the screen. Yum.
This concept is mostly for calling up canned routines. However, 6 year olds and
non-programmers will happily write programs in such languages. If you implement
natural language, certainly many more people will use your program.
-Erik
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