[alicebot-archcomm] 3D FACEs

[Jon Baer]

Kim Sullivan wrote:

>   Let people first make such a system (they can even use Program D as a base
> if they want). Let the developers resolve all issues (tagset, protocol, how
> to register different drivers, how to query capabilities...) and then show
> the comitee the working results. I'm afraid the opposite approach (first let
> the comitee work it out, then implement it) has very rarely worked out,
> often resulting in quite heated arguments (flame wars), and then the issue
> is forgotten anyways.

Very well said.  Thank you.  The whole face thing is a completely seperate thing
from "ALICE" and "AIML" in my opinion.  The *only* part which is or what belongs
is the pattern matching ability and that's it.  Processing the <template> is
entirely seperate, and trying to get elements in regards to facial expression
amongst the suppliers is very hard.

If you allow the namespace and element to be registered and allow 3rd party to
have some type of access to those elements in the <template> its up to them to
handle accordingly, which means you should maybe have 2 types of outputs, one
that is visible shown, the other which is entirely event driven (for speech,
face, recognition, etc).

- Jon