Cuneiform and Altered Mocap http://www.alansondheim.org/njitd24.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/cuneiform.jpg
From Beginning Hittite, Held, Schmalstieg, Gertz,
Slavica, 1988 : Five fundamental Hittite cuneiform strokes: horizontal - oblique (upper left to lower right) \ oblique (lower left to upper right) / vertical | the wedge (German Winkelhaken): "The Winkelhaken was produced by pressing the end of the stick in the clay at a slight angle from the upright position, thereby producing a near triangle, the deepest part of which is the angle at the left." >
From this of course, Hittite cuneiform is constructed. I've been
thinking about this - the five modular strokes, their combinations, the spaces between the strokes, their combinations which include more complex strokes and signs formed by stroke clusters, tailed together for example. And how similar this is to the basic imagery with the articulated figure in motion capture - how a limited number of rods and joints can produce complex semantics. So that in a sense there's a parallel to cuneiform, even in the sense that, in cuneiform, linguistic origin is critical (what language originally produced what sign) - and with the articulated mocap figures, what somatic clues might be read back into the figures; what for example might a punctum be, as a signifier of a particular gesture? And beyond that, of a particular emotional state for example? _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
