{"id":18017,"date":"2016-10-30T20:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T01:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18017"},"modified":"2016-10-30T20:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T01:46:19","slug":"today-i-made-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18017","title":{"rendered":"Today I made a robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not a real robot.  Just a 3D computer animated robot.  I did it as part of our Future Reality research, and the robot will be part of a larger research agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But there was something satisfying in the act of creation itself.  The moment you start to create a new animated character it begins to take on its own personality &#8212; one that is always a little surprising, a little unexpected.  And this was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it come to life by clicking on the below image.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/robot><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/robot.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>To change the camera view you can drag left or right with your mouse (or with your finger if you&#8217;re reading this from a phone).<\/p>\n<p>If you are viewing from a phone, the robot will display as a stereo pair, suitable for VR viewing.  To toggle stereo on or off, just swipe downward.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to release a new robot character into the world.  They look so cute when they&#8217;re young, don&#8217;t they?  I hope it doesn&#8217;t grow up to be Skynet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not a real robot. Just a 3D computer animated robot. I did it as part of our Future Reality research, and the robot will be part of a larger research agenda. But there was something satisfying in the act of creation itself. The moment you start to create a new animated character it begins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today I made a robot&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18019,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions\/18019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}