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O.M.GUI. It's almost spring break. Wow.

We don't feel like writing a blog post, but if we were to write one, it might go like this:

"O.M.GUI. It's almost spring break. Wow.

We don't feel like writing a blog post, but if we were to write one, it might go like this: 

'Nicole has been murdered by studying for midterms. And by mixed-media animation. But she's been brought back to life by the power of doughnut holes.

She did pick up a good idea during the weekly meeting on Thursday. So how do we check if an "angry" emotion actually looks angry? One way is to permute the control points from their "base" values, then upload these gestures to Mechanicalturk and have people vote on which emotions the gestures convey. By surveying a large group of people, we can see how strongly a gesture conveys a certain emotion. Hopefully we will be able to find a trend, for the "angry" values, for example, to save time when modifying future gestures.

Omar had an equally stressful week. There were also doughnut holes involved.

He has begun to read/consult the C++ Maya API to figure out how to correctly draw out his beta-splines in Maya. He has also been giving some thought to what the GUI in which both Nicole's and Omar's parts of the project will interface. He's not sure if it should be directly in Maya (i.e. a GUI in MEL script) or if it should be a separate thing that takes information from a Maya file. It seems like the first option may be the one to go with, at least at first.

A question: When will Unity be involved in the scope of our project, if ever? We haven't had to incorporate it thus far, and we're not sure how/when it will come into play.


For next week:

• Nicole will be in Oklahoma (where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, and the waving wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain) enjoying her break.
• Omar will be performing with Mask & Wig in New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Detroit. They may even make a stop in Canada. How aboot that? That'd be pretty cool, eh?

So, no blog post for Nelskati for a week. Hopefully you can manage on your own. We surely can.

Well, until we blog again.

Love is also like a box of chocolates,

Nelskati

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Something like that.
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Something like that like that. Good thing we didn't actually write one.

Bye.