an embedding space for character archetypes in storytelling. search by character name or description. explore semantically similar archetypes by scrubbing through the map. express their vibe through color soon? merge archetypes together or deconstruct them.

i think in here there is a new UX paradigm for defining the personalities of AI characters. using the latent space to rip apart properties from archetypes and merge them together to create more complex / layered beings.

the original inspiration was when i went to The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.

interfaces for expressing plot and interpersonal conflict? thank you robert mckee.

Future of procedural generation. This kind of technique will let you generate compelling “genre fiction” at any scale soon.

yes! my thoughts exactly!

it would be really fun to add in the emotion scrubber i made a while back so that you can see how that archetype would express each of those emotions.

not just visually but from an emotional perspective.

oh yes! add archetypes to a character and modify their prevalence using a radar chart. then you can merge them together like this…

woah - the self is smack in the middle of the avenger and the destroyer.

alsooooo - a ux improvement i want to make is to add high level text describing each of the regions in the map. since they are all "semantically sorted", we can do a level of detail thing here.