{"id":44,"date":"2017-09-30T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/?p=44"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:18:32","slug":"user-interface-for-blender-3d-using-chatscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/2017\/09\/30\/user-interface-for-blender-3d-using-chatscript\/","title":{"rendered":"User Interface for Blender 3D using ChatScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goal: Build a <a href=\"\">robot<\/a> to do my chores at home so I can focus on having a life.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t burn a lot of money on this project, it&#8217;s not the year 2005 anymore. Time is the only resource I have some amount of. So my thinking is to model my design first by getting the information from the internet. Then model a crude image of it in <a hreff=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender 3D.<\/a> I can then view various scenarios to refine my ideas using Blender&#8217;s Rigging, Animation, and Physics Engine.<\/p>\n<p>The business model looks pretty good for me.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction to opening Blender is, &#8220;Blender 3D is a VERY mature product.&#8221; Now I&#8217;m viewing the beginner tutorials at YouTube.com, and trying to wrap my head around the commands. There are just a few commands to do all the things I want to do. So my journey begins with this small step.<\/p>\n<p>Problem, I want to focus on evaluating scenarios of a robot. I think of blender as a tool that can help get this job done. My current idea is to build a layer of abstraction using a Chatbot that interfaces to Blender. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AIML\">AIML<\/a> could do the job, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivescript.com\/\">RiveScript<\/a> does it better; but the descendant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ChatScript\">ChatScript<\/a> has for the last 4 years been the foundation of success at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loebner_Prize\">Loebner Prize.<\/a> It&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n<p>Now I know the likes of Google, SpaceX, Amazon, et.al. all have Artificial Intelligence stuff that seems to be doing good by them. But at Loebner Prize&#8217;s, they separate <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/separate-the-wheat-from-the-chaff\">Wheat from Chaff.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goal: Build a robot to do my chores at home so I can focus on having a life. I can&#8217;t burn a lot of money on this project, it&#8217;s not the year 2005 anymore. Time is the only resource I have some amount of. So my thinking is to model my design first by getting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/2017\/09\/30\/user-interface-for-blender-3d-using-chatscript\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;User Interface for Blender 3D using ChatScript&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10,13,14,12,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}