{"id":6793,"date":"2011-07-05T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2011-07-05T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T23:30:09","slug":"fish-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6793","title":{"rendered":"Fish tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In research it&#8217;s important to change things up from time to time, to see whether an idea works when you vary the context.  So this weekend I turned my little interactive desklamp into a fish.  Deep down he isn&#8217;t all that different (in some ways he still thinks he&#8217;s a desklamp), but now he floats serenely above the desk in a nice magical way.<\/p>\n<p>This floating quality also makes him suitable for showing up some day soon in our own world as an eccescopic pal, sort of like Slimer from <i>Ghostbusters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I added some controls for facial expression, and at some point I&#8217;ll add higher level facial controls, like talking, as well as gestures like nodding &#8220;yes&#8221; and the corresponding &#8220;no&#8221; gesture.  And of course I&#8217;m also going to give you the ability to save your own original movies, so we can all share.<\/p>\n<p>But for now I wanted to get this out there.  As usual, click on the image to try it for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/fish target=1><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fish.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In research it&#8217;s important to change things up from time to time, to see whether an idea works when you vary the context. So this weekend I turned my little interactive desklamp into a fish. Deep down he isn&#8217;t all that different (in some ways he still thinks he&#8217;s a desklamp), but now he floats &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish tale&#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\/6793"}],"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=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6795,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/6795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}