[MR] Interesting Project

[Joshua Thomas]

That is an interesting project. I would suggest the below process. Why 
because it would be easier than administrating a group by group role of 
arms. I would be interested in working on a project like one I outlined 
below. It is a big project so I would want help of more experienced web 
programmers. It would be great to write the BOD and say hey listen we have 
this project we been working on a few years here's what it does. Can you 
throw some funding at it? 

Here is how I would Phase it up:
Phase 1: Make a word parser that takes the O & A website and looks for 
unique words and puts them in a alphabetical list. 
(This step would be easy when compared to the other phases)
Issues: How do you account for words that do not have an object (like a 
sword, lion, etc) associated with them) This issue of course compounds the 
further you get in the project since the program will have to figure out 
what use the words are.
Phase 2: Make a image database that matches up with the long list your just 
created. (Not so easy from a labor stand point)
Phase 3: Make a web service that could build devices from blazons using of 
AI on the fly or done in a initial run followed up by batch processes every 
Laurel Acceptance letter. Number of problems that would have to be overcome 
here:
*Are all your images going to be re sizable and interchangeable as a lion on 
Argent, a lion sable. is a lot bigger than say Argent, 3 lions sable in 
chevron.
*Will the server be able to keep up with requests.
*Designing the AI will be tricky due to the number of conditional elements 
involved in stylized charges. Such as a couped lions head compared with one 
that is erased. Teaching the AI heraldese may be fun for a few heraldry 
programmers.
Phase 4: Design a server side suite of pages that handle user requests like:
*Conflict check my soon to be submission with the O & A using a selected 
algorithm (By primary charge, by field division etc)
*Let me browse the O & A but in pictures.

This sounds like fun. Anyone else interested?

Tristan de Brailesford
a fearless scribe

On 5/11/05, adams at coastal.edu <adams at coastal.edu> wrote: 
> 
> First let me say that I honor the Heralds for their learning and for the 
> magic
> they do - however... 
> 
> When I was deciding on a device a few years ago, the problem that bothered 
> me
> most was that I had no visual images representing the devices that were 
> already
> registered by those older-than-me-in-the-SCA. I know that the OP has the 
> blazons in Herald-speak, but I am not multilinguial.
> 
> I thought first of a centralized databank of images, but someone would 
> have to
> be in charge of it (don't look at me, I don't speak computer-code either), 
> and 
> it would be a huge responsibility. Also, at one time, I would have said 
> that
> any such visual database was (way, WAY) beyond the existing technology, 
> but
> things have changed for the better. Most groups that I've searched for 
> inside 
> and outside of Atlantia seem to have an internet presence. Wouldn't it be 
> neat
> if each group could create a set of pictures or drawings of their members'
> devices and badges, and put them online?
> 
> If this happened, anyone could find images of lots of devices to get an 
> idea of 
> both the possibilities and the things to avoid.
> 
> On reflection, I bet that this has been discussed before, and rejected for 
> a
> variety of reasons. But maybe it's time to revisit it.
> 
> What do you all think? Mistress Alisoun and Master Eldred especially, wade 
> in 
> here, please.
> 
> Can never leave well enough alone - Lina St Albans
> (Wanna hear my plans for reforming the law of gravity? That's next)
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