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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2005Jake & the Cat ...
I thought this was really cute. click on the first one, " "What's it doing in my lap?" http://genspace.com/pov.htm >I thought this was really cute. click on the first one, " >"What's it doing in my lap?" > >http://genspace.com/pov.htm Nice story, but a rather spooky-looking computer-animated talking head.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >> I thought this was really cute. click on the first one, " >> "What's it doing in my lap?" [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Nice story, but a rather spooky-looking computer-animated talking > head. Oo. He is a bit eerie isn't he? > >> I thought this was really cute. click on the first one, " > >> "What's it doing in my lap?" [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Oo. He is a bit eerie isn't he? I did not get a moving image, just the sound, for some reason. >>> I thought this was really cute. click on the first one, " >>> "What's it doing in my lap?" [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Oo. He is a bit eerie isn't he? A couple of years ago, I read an article about a Japanese researcher who had studied people's emotional reactions to art. He found that images of people that were almost, but not quite, lifelike seemed grotesque to most people, whereas more-lifelike or more-stylized images didn't. The phenomenon is called the "uncanny valley", and an article that describes it is at http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/02/02/social.robots.ap/. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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