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Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time People magazine featured a story that corresponded with the special in its March 28, 2011 issue, which came out on March 18. The categories for the special were Best Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Best Action Film, Greatest Film Character, Best Horror Film, Best Chick Flick, Greatest Screen Kiss, Best Comedy, Best Animated Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Most Romantic Screen Couple, Greatest Line, Best Western Film and Best Political/Historical Film. To vote for their favorite films, movie fans went online at abcnews.com and people.com to select the winners from a list of nominees created by a group of film industry experts. Online voting was open from late November 2010 to January 2011. The televised special counted down the top five films in 10 of the 15 categories: Best Comedy, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Musical, Greatest Screen Kiss, Greatest Line, Best Action Film, Best Suspense/Thriller, Best Animated Film, Greatest Film Character and Best Film. Television Results[edit]
Evaluation function - Wikipedia For the string evaluation function, see eval. An evaluation function, also known as a heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function, is a function used by game-playing programs to estimate the value or goodness of a position in the minimax and related algorithms. The evaluation function is typically designed to prioritize speed over accuracy; the function looks only at the current position and does not explore possible moves (therefore static).
The Complete Story of Harry Potter Illustrated in 8 Posters by Lucy Knisley The Complete Story of Harry Potter Illustrated in 8 Posters by Lucy Knisley by Laura Hudson July 7, 2011 2:30 PM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter CS 161 Recitation Notes - Minimax with Alpha Beta Pruning The minimax algorithm is a way of finding an optimal move in a two player game. Alpha-beta pruning is a way of finding the optimal minimax solution while avoiding searching subtrees of moves which won't be selected. In the search tree for a two-player game, there are two kinds of nodes, nodes representing your moves and nodes representing your opponent's moves. Nodes representing your moves are generally drawn as squares (or possibly upward pointing triangles):
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Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm Note! This article is has also been translated to Japanese and Portuguese. I really appreciate the readers that reached out to me and translated this article. I recently built an unbeatable game of tic tac toe. It was a fun and very humbling project that taught me a ton. 30 Poster Design Tutorials for Photoshop Photoshop allows designers to create amazing posters that can be used for a variety or purposes like movie promos, product promos, event promos, as well as just for fun and practice. There are a lot of quality tutorials out there that teach the process of designing a poster in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 30 poster tutorials from a variety of different designers. In this collection you should find at least a few tutorials that teach something that could be helpful in your own work. Looking for hosting?
Tic-tac-toe AI - Java Game Programming Case Study 1. Playing Against Computer with AI (Advanced) Click the image to run the demo for the various AI strategies (under the "Options" menu): Monster Size Selection of Awesome Photoshop Tutorials During the last years I’ve been compiling resources for Photoshoppers. Since I’m the Editor of Photoshop Roadmap, I have to check for new tutorials every day and so I have a good knowledge about Photoshop resources being produced continuously. That’s why I decided to gather all the compilations of Photoshop Resources I created for this blog. The most popular subjects are present in this collection: Photo effects, Photoshop brushes, text effect, lighting and grunge effects, etc.