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Gillian Smith20 May 2011
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Announcements
Prof. Whitehead is in Hawaii
You have a midterm exam on Monday, May 23!
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Creative tasks are hard
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Can computers help?
A. Original image
B. Scaled narrower
C. Scaled narrower, using Photoshop’s content-aware scaling
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What is creativity support?
Machine-amplified design potential
Four potential roles Nanny Pen-pal Coach Colleague
Todd Lubart. 2005. How can computers be partners in the creative process: Classification and commentary on the Special Issue. Int’l Journal of Human-Computer Studies. vol. 63.
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Augmenting Human Intellect
1962Doug Engelbart poses that computers are a way to augment human intellect.
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Sketchpad
1963Ivan Sutherland creates Sketchpad, a precursor to CAD tools and object-oriented programming.
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Soft Architecture Machines
1975Nicholas Negroponte introduces the concept of computers as design amplifiers.
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Iterative Design
1992Donald Schön views design as a conversation between computer and user.
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Magic Crayons
2008Chaim Gingold describes creativity-support for novices using magic crayon metaphor.
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Sketching Virtual Worlds
2009-PresentResearchers at TU Delft combine techniques to support user sketching of virtual worlds.
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Computational Creativity
Can computers be creative in their own right?
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Computational Creativity
Can computers be creative in their own right?
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What Is Creativity?
Margaret Boden discusses context for creativity: to whom must it be novel?
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What Is Creativity?
Creativity has a central loop of creation and evaluation.
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Who Gets the Credit?
At what point does a program cease being an artistic expression from its author and become creative itself?
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Evaluating Creativity
How do we evaluate the creativity of a system?
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Domain and Knowledge Representation
Domain representation is crucial to success of computational creativity and creativity support tools.
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Experiments in Musical Intelligence
Ultimately, the computer is just a tool with which we extend our minds. The music our algorithms compose are just as much ours as the music created by the greatest of our personal human inspirations.
- David Cope
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AARON
An acclaimed art generator whose author does not consider it creative.
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The Painting Fool
There are many artists who call themselves painters, even though they often use entirely simulated paint … I do the same. I use skill, appreciation and imagination in my art process. Would you call me an artist? Would you call me creative?
- The Painting Fool (Simon Colton)
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NEvAR
Neuroevolutionary art is a creative system that does not use the human creative process.
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Tanagra: An Intelligent Level Design Tool
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Focus Games Super Mario World Donkey Kong Country 2 Sonic the Hedgehog
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Level Components Platforms
Player runs along them.
Obstacles Cause damage to player.
Collectible Items Provide reward to player.
Triggers Cause change in level.
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Why Rhythm?
Foundation of challenge in dexterity games Long sequences without pause Long and complex patterns Reduced time to complete a challenge
Source: Victor Nicollet, “Difficulty in Dexterity-Based Platform Games”, GameDev.net
Super Mario World 2, Nintendo
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Rhythm Groups
Rhythm is that of player performing actions Identify challenging areas of a level Transitions are place where player can rest
Super Mario World, Nintendo
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Tanagra Demo
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Further Reading
The New Media Reader Edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort
Designerly Ways of Knowing Nigel Cross
Experiments in Musical Intelligence David Cope