Re: [silk] A new buzzphrase: "procedural content creation"

2014-03-05 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 3/2/2014 12:24 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Very interesting - the new frontier of 'content' creation. Herewith the most high profile example so far. I've been following this blog called Procedural World, as the author works on a voxel-based world generator called Voxel Farm: http://procwor

Re: [silk] A new buzzphrase: "procedural content creation"

2014-03-05 Thread Radhika, Y.
I think it reflects the overall dumbing down of news and ascendancy of public relations speak. Make a self-promotional piece sound like news and news sound like a public relations piece.

Re: [silk] A new buzzphrase: "procedural content creation"

2014-03-05 Thread Rashmi Dhanwani
> A little baffled by the tone of voice here. For something that is a piece > of self-promotion, on their own website, why write it like a newspaper > article? Perhaps this content was also created procedurally. It's good communication. You don't realise that SpeedTree is the hero until much late

Re: [silk] A new buzzphrase: "procedural content creation"

2014-03-04 Thread gabin kattukaran
On Mar 2, 2014 11:41 PM, "Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan" < chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A little baffled by the tone of voice here. For something that is a piece > of self-promotion, on their own website, why write it like a newspaper > article? Perhaps this content was also created pro

Re: [silk] A new buzzphrase: "procedural content creation"

2014-03-02 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > http://www.speedtree.com/avatar/ > > ... > Enter SpeedTree Cinema > > As they scoured the Internet for vegetation software, Bluff’s team > learned of SpeedTree Cinema, a product so new it hadn’t been formally > announced yet. The team sig

[silk] A new buzzphrase: "procedural content creation"

2014-03-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Very interesting - the new frontier of 'content' creation. Herewith the most high profile example so far. http://www.speedtree.com/avatar/ Rarely has a movie studio been under more pressure to get the vegetation right. It was late spring in 2009, and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) had just been