So I just read Holosketch : A Virtual Reality Sketching/Animation Tool by Michael Deering, and I got to say that the Holosketch software almost got it down pack. Holosketch is a 3D software that grants you the ability to sketch, draw, paint, and animate. In laymen terms, its a three-dimensional Photoshop, and that is freaking awesome. To operate this amazing system, you first need a head-tracked field sequential stereo shutter glasses and a six axis mouse. The head set allows the user to view images in space at different angles as if the object of interest were there. The six axis mouse, or "wand" as they refer to it, allows the user to interact with the virtual enviroment in three dimensions, x, y, ans z. With the headset, wand, and the features and capabilities of Holosketch users could apply this software to everyday objectives. For example, a business man could display a company's finacial figures using virtual graphs, an engineer could have a close to realistic visualization of a building the engineer designed, or an artist could express his/herself with virtual art. The great thing about this is that this was possible about ten years ago, and technology is exponentially growing. Therefore, if not the Holosketch system, there must be a system with improved features, capabilities, etc. Anyway, here is the question of the day?
Would you kill one person to save a thousand?
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- David
- Hey! So...I will just give you facts. I am an African-American as you can tell from my picture; I am of Nigerian descent. I like to draw, but don't do it very often. I LOVE strawberries mmh. My fav color is pink. I fall into the depths of sci-fi and fantasy because it is my only escape from the cruel world we live in. I watch a lot of anime and play with photoshop on my free time. Everything else you will have to find out on your own like how kind, tolerant, nice, etc. I am because that would be an opinion that should only be left up to you to decide.
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Probability is greater than 0 and less than 1 (as is unfortunately or fortunately, all decisions in my life). The probability changes with the circumstance.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, circumstance A has a much higher probability than circumstance B (with that difference approaching 1 for these particular circumstances):
Circumstance A: The one person to be killed was Hitler (pretend he is still alive) about to light a gas chamber will with 1000 prisoners, including many famous scientists and musicians, and all of my family and closest friends.
Circumstance B: The one person to be killed was Gandhi (pretend he is still alive) and there were 1000 suicide bombers trying to kill him. But they said that they would no longer fly a plane into the ground to try to kill him if only I would kill him for them. (So I know that I said the probability is greater than zero for every thing, but this circumstance is pretty damn near zero.)