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  Possibilities for Automatically Recommending Animations to Remix

  By Kevin

  One potential future feature for Looking Glass is a system that automatically recommends animations for users to remix into their programs.  Currently, users can animate their characters...

  • Sep 07, 2012
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  Preliminary Evaluation of the Current ActionScript Format and Promising Avenues for Improving Remixing with Machine Learning

  By Kevin

  This week's blog post consists of a progress report on the near term goal of improving the format in which animations are saved for remixing (currently called ActionScripts), and brainstorming...

  • Sep 13, 2012
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  Uploading and Storing Remixes on the Backend

  By Kevin

  After examining the current way in which remixes are saved and loaded, I have concluded that we will want to modify the process slightly but keep most of it intact. The three main steps of the...

  • Sep 20, 2012
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  Decoupling the Remix Process from How a Remix is Saved

  By Kevin

  We have decided that we will use the current XML actionscript format for saving remixes.  However, the current implementation requires the actionscript to be written to a file before it can be...

  • Sep 27, 2012
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  Refactoring Scripts

  By Kevin

  This week, I came up with a plan for refactoring the action scripts into a more flexible and easy to understand format.  The plan is to replace PrecompiledScript, CompiledScript,...

  • Oct 04, 2012
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  Debugging Phase I

  By Kevin

  Last week I merged UserFunctionalityScript, CompiledScript, and PrecompiledScript into a new class called ActionScript.  This week I merged Role, CompiledRole, and PrecompiledRole into the...

  • Oct 12, 2012
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  Refactoring Complete. Preparing to Upload to the Server.

  By Kevin

  I have finished refactoring the remix process.  The ActionScriptFactory class creates and returns an ActionScript in its createActionScript static method.  The ActionScript class...

  • Oct 25, 2012
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  User Model: Tracking Understanding of Methods

  By Kevin

  I have begun to think about how to track a user's understanding of methods.  The first conclusion I have reached is that there is no good automatic or manual way to measure...

  • Nov 01, 2012
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  User Model: Features

  By Kevin

  Here is a list of some of the features we will want to track as part of the user model: Count of number of times each method has been used (across all overloads). Count of number of...

  • Nov 09, 2012
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  Uploading and Downloading Remixes: Client Side

  By Kevin

  Working on client side remix uploads. RemixScriptFileUtilities now readsand writes to an arbitrary InputStream and OutputStream instead ofnecessarily a file (this required making a method in...

  • Nov 16, 2012
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