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This is a tutorial that Leif Foged and I did for the AI summit at GDC on how to build your own finite-domain constraint solver using AC-3.  It’s won’t solve the really hard problems that hig...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/how-to-build-a-constraint-propagator-in-a-weekend/

This is a longer, journal paper on the Twig procedural animation system, submitted to the new journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (full disclosure: I’m an as...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/new-paper/

This is a paper I wrote for ICFDG that takes some work from my previous life as a roboticist and applies it to Twig (the procedural animation system I’ve been working on).  However, it’s sit...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/new-paper-comments-welcome/

Here are the slides from my position paper at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence.

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/fall-symposium-talk-slides/

    My friend Patrick Welch, a painter, comic artist, and professor at the Illinois Institute of Art, passed away recently.  He will be greatly missed.  Drink a beer for him for me.

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/the-passing-of-a-friend/

I’ve been maintaining a separate blog that’s specifically for Twig, the procedural animation system I’ve talked about a little here.  You can find the blog here.  At the moment, it’s mo...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/my-other-blog/

This is the revised version of the AIIDE paper on Twig, the procedural animation library I’ve been working on.  I’m going to do a longer journal version of it, so suggestions are very welcom...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/final-version-of-aiide-paper-on-procedural-animation/

Men are Dogs (and Women too).  This one’s for the AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Computation.  It’s my latest effort to try to get my intuitions about cognitive architecture onto paper.  T...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/another-paper/

Sorry for being off the air for so long.  This is a paper I did for AIIDE on the procedural animation work I’ve been doing.  Unfortunately, rather too much of it was written during a 39 hour ...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/procedural-animation-paper/

Last quarter I was teaching 3 classes, so I’m just getting my head above water now.  I’ll try to start posting regularly again now.  I’ve gotten at least a little bit of hacking done and ...

https://ianhorswill.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/coming-up-for-air/