advice about distributing the code

I’ve been saying that I was going to distribute Twig open-source, which is true.  Any yet, there are no pointers to the code.  Why is that?  It’s because I haven’t had a chance to figure out some of the mechanics of distributing the code.  In particular, I haven’t figured out:

• Which of the many open-source licenses to use (my inclination is to make it available for commercial use, since anyone trying to use it in a commercial product would likely want to reimplement it in C++ anyway).
• Where to put the code.  The obvious possibilities are something like source forge, my own SVN server, or just a zip file on a web site that I periodically update.
• Should I use a bugzilla, wiki, etc.

It looks at the moment like that default plan will be to use LGLP and my own SVN server.  But advice on any of these issues is welcome.  In the mean time, I am distributing the code informally; just drop me an email.

My AI blog

I should mention that I have another blog that isn’t restricted to talking about Twig.  It hasn’t been as active because I’ve been working on Twig, but you can find it at http://ianhorswill.wordpress.com.

episode 3

I did this as a demo for the AIIDE talk.  As a consequence, it has some in jokes in it.  So be advised that AIIDE means “(Conference on) Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment”, chaired this year by Michael Mateas of Facade fame, and AAAI means “Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence”, the professional organization that sponsors it.  The ZIP file is available for download, but remember to install the XNA 2.0 redistributable if you haven’t already.

AIIDE talk slides

Are here.  AIIDE talks are only 15 minutes, so it’s super-compressed.  But it does document some of the newer stuff like object manipulation.

AIIDE paper on twig

Sorry.  I should have posted this a while ago.  This is a paper on Twig, the procedural animation system about which this blog is about.  It’s for the AIIDE conference in Stanford in a little over a week or so.  It’s short and incomplete but I’ll be writing a longer journal version and I’ll be posting information on the system here.

I also have a more general research blog that isn’t focused on Twig, but more on AI broadly construed.