{"id":27936,"date":"2025-11-02T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:59:07","slug":"procedural-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27936","title":{"rendered":"Procedural storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve developed a style of teaching through the years. I vary it from time to time, but there is always a common thread.<\/p>\n<p>In order to teach computer graphics techniques and algorithms, I create interactive visuals that let me guide the students through the various concepts. So it becomes a kind of magic show, with the promise that at the end of the class the students will become fellow magicians.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to realize that this style of presentation is a sort of &#8220;procedural storytelling&#8221;. At the core is a strong narrative, which needs to built on compelling and exciting ideas.<\/p>\n<p>But those ideas are presented visually as a live interactive demo, so that people are able see those ideas coming to life and coalescing before their eyes. Which, when you think about it, is pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve developed a style of teaching through the years. I vary it from time to time, but there is always a common thread. In order to teach computer graphics techniques and algorithms, I create interactive visuals that let me guide the students through the various concepts. So it becomes a kind of magic show, with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Procedural storytelling&#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\/27936"}],"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=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27937,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions\/27937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}