Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!gh From: gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst) Newsgroups: ont.events Subject: AI/Graphics seminar at U of Toronto Message-ID: <265@utai.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 09:26:21 EDT Article-I.D.: utai.265 Posted: Thu Oct 18 09:26:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 10:42:10 EDT Distribution: ont Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 34 == University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science == Artificial Intelligence and Graphics seminar == Tuesday 23 October, 3pm, Sandford Fleming 1105 Automating the creation of explanatory pictures Steve Feiner Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI The APEX [Automated Pictorial EXplanations] project has as its long-term goal the real-time computer generation of effective pictorial and textual explanations. Our current research has concentrated on the creation of pictures that depict the perfor- mance of physical actions, such as turning or pushing, on ob- jects. The research combines techniques of artificial intelli- gence and computer graphics. We are constructing a test-bed system that generates pictures of actions performed by a problem solver. Our system supports rules for determining automatically the objects to be shown in a pic- ture, the style and level of detail with which they should be rendered, the method by which the action itself should be indi- cated, and the picture's viewing specifications. A picture crys- tallizes about a small set of objects inferred from the nature of the action being depicted. Additional objects and detail are ad- ded when it is determined that they help disambiguate an object from others with which it may be confused. -- \\\\ Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Computer Science Department //// utcsrgv!utai!gh / gh.toronto@csnet-relay / 416-978-8747