{"id":4151,"date":"2020-09-01T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2020-09-01T01:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:53:23","slug":"toad2-reading01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/engoandrew-cmu-edu\/09\/01\/toad2-reading01\/","title":{"rendered":"Toad2-reading01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10,000 Bowls of Oatmeal Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 10,000 bowls of Oatmeal problem examines a feature of generative art, the perceptual uniqueness &#8211; the\u00a0 amount of distinction between artifacts and perceptual differentiation &#8211; the ability to perceive\u00a0 two artifacts as different.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of perceptual uniqueness does not necessarily hurt a project since depending upon the context a lack of perceptual uniqueness among a collection of artifacts can benefit or hurt the collection. For example, a game focused upon collecting an infinite number of creatures would be harmed by a lack of perceptual uniqueness since the game&#8217;s main draw is the infinite number of unique creatures. While the promised variety theoretically exists, but since the user can&#8217;t quickly distinguish said variety, it doesn&#8217;t really exist. On the other hand, procedurally generated crowd that wanders the background would benefit from a lack of perceptual uniqueness and merely having perceptual differentiation. The slight variation between each character would provide subtly uniqueness to each background character without causing them to stand out.<\/p>\n<p>In order to increase perceptual uniqueness, the author recommends we generate objects that each have emphasized characteristics humans can easily distinguish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10,000 Bowls of Oatmeal Problem The 10,000 bowls of Oatmeal problem examines a feature of generative art, the perceptual uniqueness &#8211; the\u00a0 amount of distinction between artifacts and perceptual differentiation &#8211; the ability to perceive\u00a0 two artifacts as different. The lack of perceptual uniqueness does not necessarily hurt a project since depending upon the context &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/engoandrew-cmu-edu\/09\/01\/toad2-reading01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toad2-reading01&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}