<HEAD> <TITLE>"Agent stories - primitives"</Title> </HEAD> <BODY> <A NAME="pgtop"></A> <A HREF="indexc.htm"><Img Src="flconts.gif" alt=""></A> <A HREF="index4.htm"><Img Src="fllarrow.gif" alt=""></A> <A HREF="index6.htm"><Img Src="flrarrow.gif" alt=""></A> <A HREF="#pgbot"><Img Src="flnote.gif" alt=""></A> <BR> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="index5.gif" alt=""> <HR> <A NAME="pgbot"></A> <UL><LI>In Kevin Brooks' paper "Do Story Agents Use Rocking Chairs?" we find an interesting method for deconstructing and constructing stories. Brooks uses <B>narrative primitives</B> based on Branigan's original story sequence elements. Any story can be represented as a connected web of these primitives, or "<B>clips</B>". Each clip has a point of view (POV), usually of one of the characters. </UL> <HR> <A HREF="#pgtop"><Img Src="flpage.gif" alt=""></A> <FONT SIZE="-2">Published by Lotus® Freelance Graphics® </BODY>