Although this was probably intentional on behalf of the writers and director. Speaking of which, HAL ends up showing off emotions greater than those of the actual humans - either programmed or genuine - and ironically serves as the only "human," fully-realized character in the film.As the film shows later, there's plenty of evidence in the film to support both readings. The film never gives us an answer to the question of whether HAL has genuine emotions and consciousness or simply mimics them.This means that despite mainly being a piece of artificial intelligence, it still has the ability to display actual human feelings and emotions, to the point where the other astronauts (mainly David Bowman) treated HAL like a human being and an honorary sixth member of the crew. HAL has anthropomorphic, human-mimicking qualities such as a glowing, watchful red eye with which he connects to the world, and a rich, pleasant TV announcer's voice (with a slightly malevolent edge to it). HAL was described as having the ability which can reproduce (or 'mimic') most of the activities of the human brain, with incalculably greater speed and reliability.Douglas Rain gives so much compassion and emotion in his voice-over role, it becomes very convincing.It is the computer system over Discovery One's spaceship who goes terribly wrong when it decides to kill David and the other astronauts to prevent them from shutting him down. Heuristically Programmed Algorithimic Computer 9000, or better known as HAL 9000 for short, is the main antagonist of the 1968 MGM sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a supporting character of its 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact. When this is clicked the playSound function is called with the name of the audio file as it’s parameter.Control over the Discovery One ship's technology },)Īs you can see we also added an addClick event on the rectangle in this piece of code. Next we draw the 'eye' as a radialGradient.These two elements are added to the canvas by using the context.drawImage function. Basically this consisted of the HAL9000 border:Īnd a transparent image showing the ring: Based on a standard background that showed HAL, I used photoshop to extract the static parts. The HAL9000 animation was created using a couple of static images and a radial context. Recreating HAL9000 animation using Canvas Lets start with the Canvas based HAL9000 implementation. In this article we’ll look at the following subjects: Nothing to special happens in this demo, but there are a couple of interesting things here. You can see the example right away by following this link, or clicking the image: The sound bites are played back using the HTML5 Audio element, so should work across most modern browsers. If you click on the image below you can find a simple soundboard I created that animates HAL’s glowing light each time you select a sound bite. In this article I’ll quickly walk you through the steps how I did this. So as a quick side project I decided to create an animated HAL 9000 using HTML5 Canvas. Currently I’m looking at how you can use this API to create robot sounds and was looking for a nice way to represent this. In the last month I’ve been experimenting with the Web Audio API. Playing sound using the HTML5 Audio element.Recreating HAL9000 animation using Canvas.HAL 9000 Soundboard with HTML5, Canvas and HTML5 Audio
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