Re: Lost Gbs
On 19/08/2005, at 8:35 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: iBook G4 800MHz 30Gb 1Gb RAM 10.4 There is just the bare system and a few files on this set up but it shows only 5 gigs out of 30 available. Where could the rest of the storage capacity on the HD be? Thanks and Best wishes edward Hi Edward, You could try 'WhatSize' (which is free) or OmniDiskSweeper (non-free). http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21149 WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/ Another option is using 'Terminal' as described here in Apple discussions. http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@. 68b50a3d/1 Good luck. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Façade - An Artificial Intelligence Electronic Narrative Experiment
Hi WAMUGgers This looks absolutely fascinating but is not yet available for mac. http://www.interactivestory.net/ (Thanks to Kim Flintoff on echalk list for this lead) Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one- act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama- managed plot. Within this architecture we have built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by computer- controlled characters, in which the player experiences a story from a first-person perspective. Façade was publicly released as a freeware download / cd-rom in July 2005. You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get- together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip’s marriage. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the course of Grace and Trip’s lives – motivating you to re-play the drama to find out how your interaction could make things turn out differently the next time. It is an 800mB download or available as free 2 CD set. What is even more interesting, or challenging perhaps, is the invitation from the developers, at http://www.interactivestory.net/faq/, Q: Is Façade available for the Mac? Not currently, but only because we haven't ported it to the Mac yet. If you are a Mac programmer interested to help us port Façade to the Mac, which should be a reasonably simple task as the graphics are implemented in OpenGL, please write us at our personal e-mail addresses, available at interactivestory.net. Is there anyone out there willing to help out? Regards Reg
Re: Façade - An Artificial Intelligence Electro nic Narrative Experiment
Reg: On 20/08/2005, at 9:49 AM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi WAMUGgers This looks absolutely fascinating but is not yet available for mac. http://www.interactivestory.net/ (Thanks to Kim Flintoff on echalk list for this lead) Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one- act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot. Within this architecture we have built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by computer-controlled characters, in which the player experiences a story from a first-person perspective. Façade was publicly released as a freeware download / cd-rom in July 2005. You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip’s marriage. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the course of Grace and Trip’s lives – motivating you to re-play the drama to find out how your interaction could make things turn out differently the next time. I had a look at it on a Windows machine and it's an intriguing concept but like all AI, it doesn't pick up the full breadth of human interaction. It helps that Grace and Tip are already so self-focused and arguing with each other, that you don't notice the lack of human nuance. Still, you have to experience it... Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com aim: pixglen
