Comments on: A visit to Uncanny Valley http://www.starchamber.com/2006/05/a-visit-to-uncanny-valley.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:31:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: JMike http://www.starchamber.com/2006/05/a-visit-to-uncanny-valley.html#comment-933 JMike Wed, 24 May 2006 14:58:07 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=1257#comment-933 My vote for critical comment of the year: "...my god! Her eyes! It's like looking over the edge of the flat earth into an endless infinite howling darkness, unto which an anvil could be tossed and fall for forty days and forty nights and not yet reach the inky awful depths of her soul. ... This stuff is hideous beyond description, and I describe things for a living." Posted by Clive Thompson at May 17, 2006 02:14 PM My vote for critical comment of the year:

“…my god! Her eyes! It’s like looking over the edge of the flat earth into an endless infinite howling darkness, unto which an anvil could be tossed and fall for forty days and forty nights and not yet reach the inky awful depths of her soul.

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This stuff is hideous beyond description, and I describe things for a living.”

Posted by Clive Thompson at May 17, 2006 02:14 PM

]]> By: Ben http://www.starchamber.com/2006/05/a-visit-to-uncanny-valley.html#comment-932 Ben Wed, 24 May 2006 07:35:26 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=1257#comment-932 Brad Bird (director of the Incredibles) actually mentioned this when asked why his characters were more cartoony. Brad Bird (director of the Incredibles) actually mentioned this when asked why his characters were more cartoony.

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