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Ashley Nathan Feniello (12k AGA) Software Engineer I start my kids out young! :-) Nathan (18 mo.):
Kaitlyn (5):
Calvin (7):
My wife and I recently visited Japan:
Arno: a Martian with a single eye? unkx80: A Go stone on a goban? Charles Looks more like a bowl with stones, to me. Nodog: Bird poop on a basketball? I'm experimenting with richer diagram commenting. I'm basically just thinking of inline icons for relating the commentary to points and stones on the board. Ideally, it should be as complete as the diagramming feature itself; containing Black and White stones with numbers 1-10 and with square and circle marks. Also was thinking of having icons for marked and lettered empty points. That's about it.
Black stones:
White stones:
Hey coolness! Arno has added the feature to SL!
Here are some examples of how they could be used in commentary:
Black does not want to play
Also, later Black will have a peep at
Had
I tend to dislike commentary like: "If Black b, White is more likely to answer at a, because this gives life with eyes and points. White d Black a gives a seki: no points." ... or worse yet: "Black 1 at 1 would save the group, but I think Black 1 at 2 or 4 do as well. So maybe White 1 at 2 or 3 can be made to work. White 1 at 3 certainly isn't answered by Black 2 at 4" I'd rather see separate diagrams.
Some other ideas I've had (but I think are over the top for SL) are further separating presentation from data in SGF. For example, 'macros' in comments to refer to points and stones on the board rather than having markup tags. Then the SGF viewer could decide how best to represent the correlation. I was further thinking of defining a bunch of common comment glyphs (gleaned from KJD and Teaching Ladder games). Things like 'a and b are miai' could become '{miai:Q12,R13}' and the SGF viewer could decide to present however it sees fit. Some may simply display as text (in the language of your choice). Others may use inline icons and display matching markup on the board. Others in the future may even do some bizarre stuff like a 'cartoon balloon' at the point on the board being discussed or a finger pointing at the board while the commentary is read aloud (yeah, I'm dreaming). Also, it could be translated to various languages or represented as a standard set of international 'glyphs' like Statistics: PointPopularityByMoveNumber Testing
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