Animated Models of Story Excerpts

In order of complexity:

The Baby Cried (2009): The short story ‘The baby cried, the mummy picked it up’ was Keith Devlin’s example of how complex the most simple story can be to interpret. This work took it a step further, to show why progressive interpretation is critical to accurate interpretation.

Model of first paragraph of Little Red Riding Hood as a Dictator Would Tell It by H.I Phillips.

Model of first paragraph of Little Red Riding Hood by Walter de la Mare (for comparison with the other Red Riding Hood story).

Model of Scene from Game of Thrones, ‘And Now His Watch is Ended’.

Model of Three Scenes from Guardians of The Galaxy. This analysis focuses on high-level structure to understand how analogy emerges and connects remote situations.

A clean version of that process, in which the layout details are erased, can be seen in this version, Analogical structure in Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

Presentations describing ongoing work

Narrative Causal Impetus: Governance through Situational Shift in Game of Thrones (2014, 24 mins): Presentation on an aspect of what makes a scene from Game of Thrones unputdownablefor the Intelligent Narrative Technologies 7 conference, 2014.

From Logic to Story (2009, 25 mins): How we use situation theory to span the differences between logic and story. This movie is manual advance (you need to click thorugh each slide, even though it is a movie).

Explanation of Katachi and Kutachi Project (2009): This movie is manual advance (you need to click thorugh each slide, even though it is a movie).