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Subject: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 April 2005 Lisp NYC: Bob Coyne on WordsEye, the natural language text to three dimensional picture system
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what="official Lisp NYC announcement">
From: Heow Eide-Goodman <·····@alphageeksinc.com>
To: ····@lispnyc.org
Date: 30 Mar 2005 12:04:23 -0500
Please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, April 12th from 7:00 pm
to 9:00 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Bob Coyne, entrepeneur and old-school Lisp developer will be presenting
a special lisp-eyes-only preview of WordsEye. It is the culmination of
years of work and highlights the technology that he developed. It is,
of course, written in Lisp.
WordsEye: Creating 3D scenes from textual descriptions
WordsEye allows untrained users to spontaneously and
interactively create 3D scenes by simply describing them. By
using natural language, ordinary users can quickly create 3D
scenes without having to learn special software, acquire
artistic skills, or even touch a desktop window-oriented
interface. Creating graphics with natural language gives a
new sense of power to words and suggests applications in
education and creative play as well as the creation of visual
art itself. WordsEye relies on a large database of 3D models
and images to depict objects and surface textures. WordsEye
is written in Common Lisp and runs on Linux.
WordsEye screenshot-goodness can be found here:
http://www.lispnyc.org/assets/coyne-we-preview.jpg
Directions:
Trinity Lutheran
602 E. 9th St. & Ave B., on Thomkins Square Park
http://www.luther95.com/TLESP-NYNY/index.html
From N,R,Q,W (8th Street NYU Stop) and the 4,5 (Astor Street Stop):
Walk East 4 blocks on St. Marks, cross Thomkins Square Park.
From F&V (2nd Ave Stop):
Walk E one or two blocks, turn north for 8 short blocks
From L (1st Ave Stop):
Walk E one block, turn sounth for 5 short blocks
The M9 bus line drops you off at the doorstep and the M15 is near get
off on St. Marks & 1st)
To get there by car, take the FDR (East River Drive) to Houston then
go NW till you're at 9th & B. Week-night parking isn't bad at all,
but if you're paranoid about your Caddy or in a hurry, there is a
parking garage on 9th between 1st and 3rd Ave.
- Heow
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From: Paolo Amoroso
Subject: Re: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 April 2005 Lisp NYC: Bob Coyne on WordsEye, the natural language text to three dimensional picture system
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·········@lxny.org writes:
> <blockquote
> what="official Lisp NYC announcement">
>
> From: Heow Eide-Goodman <·····@alphageeksinc.com>
[...]
> Please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, April 12th from 7:00 pm
> to 9:00 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church.
>
> Bob Coyne, entrepeneur and old-school Lisp developer will be presenting
> a special lisp-eyes-only preview of WordsEye. It is the culmination of
> years of work and highlights the technology that he developed. It is,
> of course, written in Lisp.
>
> WordsEye: Creating 3D scenes from textual descriptions
[...]
> and images to depict objects and surface textures. WordsEye
> is written in Common Lisp and runs on Linux.
According to this 2002(?) presentation by Coyne and Sproat:
http://online.cs.nps.navy.mil/DistanceEducation/online.siggraph.org/2001/Papers/13_HandsAndWords/sproat.pdf
WordsEye was written in Common Lisp on Windows NT and used Mirai. Was
WordsEye later ported to Linux?
Paolo
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- ASDF/ASDF-INSTALL: system building/installation
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Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> http://online.cs.nps.navy.mil/DistanceEducation/online.siggraph.org/2001/Papers/13_HandsAndWords/sproat.pdf
>
>WordsEye was written in Common Lisp on Windows NT and used Mirai. Was
>WordsEye later ported to Linux?
>
>
>
> According to this 2002(?) presentation by Coyne and Sproat:
The original version required two machines to run. The parser ran on Linux
in C and the rest ran on Windows NT in Lisp (including the Mirai component
for the graphics). The new version is a rewrite (in progress) and runs
completely
on Linux and in Lisp and uses some homegrown graphics code rather than
Mirai.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://online.cs.nps.navy.mil/DistanceEducation/online.siggraph.org/2001/Papers/13_HandsAndWords/sproat.pdf">http://online.cs.nps.navy.mil/DistanceEducation/online.siggraph.org/2001/Papers/13_HandsAndWords/sproat.pdf</a>
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According to this 2002(?) presentation by Coyne and Sproat:<br>
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The original version required two machines to run. The parser ran on
Linux<br>
in C and the rest ran on Windows NT in Lisp (including the Mirai
component<br>
for the graphics). The new version is a rewrite (in progress) and runs
completely<br>
on Linux and in Lisp and uses some homegrown graphics code rather than
Mirai.<br>
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