User:Desdemona Enfield

Scriptrix and Priminatrix

Des/demona is a master scripter and advanced builder.

She works for artists, mathematicians, physicists, educators, and product developers that create in-world content for SecondLife, the reaction grid, and the rezzable grid. She creates custom animations, sculpts and textures using both off the shelf tools and custom systems software that she writes herself. She pursues her own research projects in photometric reconstruction.

Her award winning collaborations with Douglas Story include: FlowerBall, which was a Top Ten Art Installations noted by New World Notes; and DynaFleur, which received 11,000 visitors in 2008 and was listed in the Linden Lab Showcase in 2009. She is the script author of the Burning Life 2008 and 2009 Lamplighter drumming systems, the Butterfly and Meteor Shower quest systems at Ode, and an astrophysical visualization at StellaNova. In collaboration with Wizard Gynoid, she developed the scripts that create the visualizations of the E8 Special Lie Group which underlays the unified field theory of the physicist R Garrett Lisi. Her current projects include a new artistic collaboration with Douglas, a series of educational systems, and a in-world graphic novel co-developed with Figbash Snook. (1/2010)

If you Google her name as an exact phrase, you will get over 4000 hits.

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She performs these functions on an ongoing basis....

• mentoring on scripting techniques and the mathematics underlying them
• relentless role play (smiles) and similar time consuming activities
• regular participation in the Chilbo Community scripting workshop
• scores of smaller projects done on an ad hoc basis for self and friends.

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Her primary solo and collaborative projects include (reverse chronologic) scripting for:

• interactive architectural tutoring systems for USC.
• interactive educational systems for Santa Barbara City College
• visitor gifts in the Rezzable grid.
• wide area landscapes created from segmented sculpts
• curvilinear inter prim texture mapping
• morphing stage ceilings for Music Island the shift thru platonic solids
• story writing and the creation of visual vignettes documenting these stories
• particle based astrophysical special effects: clusters, black holes, binaries
• a numeric analysis of sound roll-off and Doppler effects
• scripted devices to provide region lag metrics
• precision sculpt generation using computer programmed mathematics
• meteor shower stage effects for concerts at Music Island
• a detailed study into the glitched behaviors of sound synchronization
• using sine wave avatar robots for gallery exhibition rezzing
• role playing quest systems: permits, powers, access, events
• precision, multi-prim landscape sculpting with Phong Artifact suppression
• Dynafleur Redux at Caledon Kintyre (230,222,2624)
• village, ritual and stage drumming systems for Burning Life 2009
• an in-world introductory tutorial on Quantum Mechanics
• machinima director system for coordinating cameras, animations, and movement
• the mixed reality presentation "Dancing with Myself" for Nar Duell
• Desdemona received a 10,000 L$ award from Linden Labs for the discovery and investigation of a "previously unknown server denial of service attack vector" (jira SEC-301)
• Sample visualizations for health, physics, math, and finance. This 3D rezzing system, which will make 3D graphs of your own data, was being gifted freely at the data visualization lab at StellaNova (218,27,26) during 2009
• Vehicle performance metrics for deriving parameters from extant motion
• The StormEye exhibit at NMC Campus West (124, 78, 502)
• advanced scripted methods to perform wide are prim alignment
• The shooting star gifting system at Ode (194, 172, 151)
• on very short notice, the Ritual Drumming system used at Burning Life 2008
• Urban Spectre at Burning Life 2008 and now at Locus (102, 48, 31)
• The E8/4_21 polytope visualization (cf. Garrett Lisi's Theory of Everything ) at Burning Life 2008 and the Reaction Grid
• Quasar astrophysical data visualizations at StellaNova (218, 27, 26)
• using precision particle placement to create arbitrary surface shapes
• 2D Bessel wave simulations using n-body technique
• Pillflower World at NMC Campus 7 and OCAD Campus for Nar Duell
• Purgatorio at Rezzable's Garden of NPIRL Delights for DB Bailey
• stage prop 'one click' set management system
• The Butterfly Hunt gifting system at Ode (194, 172, 151)
• architectural simulations used for first life urban planning
• DynaFleur at Princeton South and Caledon Kintyre
• sporing mushrooms and solar/lunar beams in Chakryn Forest
• the hug gifting system distributed by Random Calliope
• FlowerBall at Princeton North and Burning Life 2007 and Cetus/Locus
• the capture and analysis of avatar and object ballistic motion
• advanced methods for scripted texture alignment
• platonic solid rezzer and other scripted geometric rezzers.
• a camera view control system with fixed view and variations on follow view
• distributed visitor logging system
• extended sound sequencing techniques
• numerous variations on animation control and puppeteering
• the ELVEN conference center
• development of deterministic analytical methods to achieve precise rotations of child prims
• SL solar kinematic analysis
• an analysis of the limits of validity for LSL arithmetic operations

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• "Scripters type it better" (smiles)
• cf: Desdemona's in-world profile
• For entertainment purposes only.
• Copyright 2005-2010, Desdemona Enfield, Ohio US, All Rights Reserved.
• SL usage permission granted per wiki agreement.