Re: joint occurrences?
Michael Bernstein <[email protected]>
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Eric Scheid wrote: > [snip] > Occurrences would then appear as thus: > > Episode 10x07 "Sands of Thyme" > Characters: > Evil Bob > That Midget Guy > Gran-ma Jones > Hot-n-steamy > Evil Bob -> leather pants > Gran-ma Jones -> biceps! > That Midget Guy -> slinky nightwear > > > At this point most of you should be recoiling in horror, and not just at the > thought of That Midget Guy in slinky nightwear. Facets, anyone? > > Apart from the combinatorial exponentiation, and all those redundant > combinations (urgh!), such a classification would also be opaque to > answering questions like "show me all the episodes where any character wore > leather pants". > > Thoughts, anyone? It seems to me that the problem here isn't directly one of classification, but one of granularity. In other words, your episodes need to be broken down (most likely) to 'scenes', which can contain 'character occurrences'. Each 'character occurrence' can then be classified easily by the character (optionally, played by which actor), and also optionally by their state of undress. Then, you should be perfectly able to find "all episodes which contain a scene that has a character in leather pants". Or, if you like, you can skip the 'scene' granularity (although I think it would be useful for your scenario) and have all character occurrences associated directly with their respective episodes. It would also let you search for "that episode that has a character occurrence of Evil Bob in leather pants and an occurrence of That Midget Guy in slinky nightwear". Does this help? - Michael Bernstein ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/0bmwlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ---------- Thanks for playing. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/