Randomized dances part 2

[elf_dreamer]

I have started programming my dance randomizer. I have not programmed for a long time, and I am not familiar enough with Java, but this should be simple enough. Really, the only thing I need to figure out is what is a "fair" way to randomize. I don't think giving each movement equal chance is the best. It should have make each characteristic have

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[improvedhuman]

What would be a cool idea is to transcribe some existing "aesthetically pleasing" (and not so pleasing) dances and use that data to learn a score function that you can then attempt to maximize (probably you'd have to use some sort of hill-climbing to achieve a local optimum).

Of course, that's just me trying to turn everything into a machine learning problem.

Oh and this would have no practical application, besides perhaps studying what the people who rated the input dances in the first place like.

You beat me to the punchline

[elf_dreamer]

Yeah. That is the final place I would like to take this. First I need to develop a simple and computer friendly dance language. Then the simplest application is creating completely random dances, then I will for a while try to teach it about phrasing and structure via my own knowledge. Then when my language is complete enough to understand pretty much everything that happens in a choreography - at that point I can try feeding it dances made by others.