This afternoon I was describing to someone a software project I’m working on, which allows parts of a document to be interpreted by a computer, so that interactive animated characters (as moving illustrations in the document) can act out a story in response to that text.<\/p>\n
I was explaining that in order to make this practical, those “computer readable” parts of the document will use a special text editor — one that guides the author to write things in a way that computers (which are a bit stupid) can actually understand.<\/p>\n
Then a bit later this afternoon a colleague told me that his nephew, a brilliant NYU film student, is interested in the idea of writing screenplays in the form of animations.<\/p>\n
I told my colleague that I’m already working on that — since what his nephew wants is more or less a very nice way to describe what I am building.<\/p>\n
His nephew and I are going to meet, and hopefully collaborate.<\/p>\n
I love when this sort of confluence happens. I take it as a sign that things might be going right.<\/p>\n
Happy π day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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