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wheeee!
When I awoke I got stuck into a problem for work that has been bothering me. I started by learning about some aspects of controlling VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) from Javascript that I previously was very unsure of. Mostly I had an idea that the peculiarly named slerp( ) function might be able to help in my quest (it does a spherical linear interpolation, which just means it finds an angle between 2 angles). But there were some other things I needed to learn more about too.
Not being able to find much about these functions in any of my books, other than the most skimpy descriptions, I searched thru my hundreds of sample files. (Whenever I find a VRML file that does something even slightly interesting I save it to my folder full of examples.) And whaddaya know -- there was a delightfully intricate program using that and a whole lot of the functions I was wanting to understand. There is nothing like having a working example in your hands to tease apart... and that is what I did.
It is now7:30am -- I worked on this pretty-much all night! I feel fantastic!!
I have learned enormous amounts! And learning really is my greatest joy.
I am gonna get a bit of sleep now... if my grins and silly dances and giggles permit me to...
Wow! Life is wonderful!
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I have dancing and giggling like an idiot all day. Sometimes life is just sooo good.
One of the things that set the day up as being great was that I did a very successful search online for some information and quite by accident came away with much more than I expected. For instance I had no idea that transcripts of one of my favorite shows, Frasier, are online -- all 217 episodes! The writing in that show revels in playing with words.
I also found 40 scripts and 84 transcripts of the original Twilight Zone TV series!!! Now, that was ground-breaking TV. I don't know when I will get a chance to read all this, but I am prepared. :)
Here is a quote from Rod Serling, who created (and wrote many episodes of) the Twilight Zone... it is still true today, 43 years later:
Here's what The Twilight Zone is: it's an anthology series, half hour in length, that delves into the odd, the bizarre, the unexpected. Here's what The Twilight Zone isn't: it's not a monster rally or a spook show. It probes into the dimension of imagination but with a concern for taste and for an adult audience too long considered to have IQs in negative figures.
Each show is a carefully conceived and wrought piece of drama, cast with competent people, directed by creative, quality-conscious guys, and shot with an eye toward mood and reality. There will be nothing formula'd, nothing telegraphed, nothing so nostalgically familiar that an audience can join actors in duets.
The exciting thing about our medium is its potential, the fact that it doesn't have to be imitative. What it can produce in terms of novelty and ingenuity has barely been scratched. This is a medium that can spread out, delve deep, probe fully and reach out experimentally to whole new concepts. The horizons of what it can do and where it can go stretch out beyond vision.
And that's what we're trying to do with The Twilight Zone. We want to tell stories that are different. We want to prove that television, even in its half-hour form, can be both commercial and worthwhile. The half-hour film can probe effectively, dramatize and present a well-told and well-filmed story; at the same time, perhaps only as a side effect, a point can be made that the fresh and untried can carry more infinite appeal than a palpable imitation of the already proved. The Twilight Zone is a wondrous land of the very different. No luggage is required for the trip. All that the audience need bring is imagination.
- Rod Serling, November 7, 195
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Nineteen -fifty-what? I'm a sucker for collecting good quotes. :)
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:)