A Creative Computer?

The first week of class was pretty exciting! The class made some very good comments about creativity in computers and seemed to enjoy the concept of DARCI. They expressed some great ideas about how we can help DARCI move toward creativity. For example, artists talk a lot about how their current mood and current life circumstances affect their work. They want to express their mood, or the feelings they feel when things happen in their life. So it would be cool to give DARCI something like a mood component that changes based on things like the weather, or current events in the world, or how often people interact with her. This mood component would then influence the way DARCI decides to render images. It is a neat idea that would significantly add to her ability to communicate intention in her artefacts.