25 Mar 05 Rock Paper Scissors

Rock Paper Scissors

Aside from the gesture recognition, it seems like this would bean easy game to learn. The logic is basically

• If rock: paper win, scissors lose
• If paper: scissors win, rock lose
• if scissors: rock win, paper lose

No variable amounts, just straight boolean logic. The next step up might be something like tic-tac-toe… where the machine could start to build some “educated” moves and techniques like blocking, etc.

Really, what is exciting is the spatial recognition. Given the actions, somebody is still telling it what is a win and what is a loss. Without it, learning would be simple enough, given your value and that of the opponent:

• Rock: Paper (lose)
• Rock: Scissors (win)
• Rock: Rock (tie)
• Paper: Paper (tie)
• Paper: Scissors (lose)
• Paper: Rock (win)
• Scissors: Paper (win)
• Scissors: Scissors (tie)
• Scissors: Rock (lose)