{"id":23975,"date":"2022-01-05T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23975"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:14:51","slug":"widget-wednesday-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23975","title":{"rendered":"Widget Wednesday #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that with the new year, I will try something new. Every Wednesday will be &#8220;Widget Wednesday&#8221;. So once a week I will post and discuss something I&#8217;ve created in computer graphics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start off with something old. <a href=\"http:\/\/kenperlin.com\/face\/\">THIS DEMO<\/a> is a partial rebuild in JavaScript of a Java applet I originally presented as a SIGGRAPH 97 Technical Sketch, which was then incorporated into a traveling museum exhibit by the American Museum of the Moving Image, and was eventually used by kids on the Spectrum to teach themselves how to read facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p>The full demo showed how a real-time autonomous virtual character could express convincing emotions, without using repetitive prebuilt animations, by mixing facial expressions over time to simulate shifting moods and attitudes.<\/p>\n<p>This partial rebuild mostly shows how a minimal number of elements of facial expression can start to generate a convincing impression of character and personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that with the new year, I will try something new. Every Wednesday will be &#8220;Widget Wednesday&#8221;. So once a week I will post and discuss something I&#8217;ve created in computer graphics. I&#8217;ll start off with something old. THIS DEMO is a partial rebuild in JavaScript of a Java applet I originally presented as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Widget Wednesday #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23980,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975\/revisions\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}