Truan, Elena, project dir. El corral del Príncipe: Reconstrucción 3D realizada en Los Sims 4
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Abstract
Many kids of my generation, myself included, spent countless hours in the virtual world of The Sims video games, shaping alternative lives on the computer or television screen.Within this simulated universe we built homes, went to work, had families, partied, and even confronted the concept of mortality when we witnessed our Sims die.Time passed, and naturally I discovered myself engaging in similar activities in the real world.The Sims faded into childhood memory until recently when, in my real job, I learned about its application as a virtual tool for reconstructing seventeenth-century Spanish courtyard theaters known as corrales de comedias.Corrales were open-air rectangular structures with a central thrust stage and a versatile back wall adorned with alcoves.They served as venues where socially segregated audiences, encircling the stage space, watched plays, either standing or seated.This project, which has produced a paper and an interactive YouTube video, was developed by Elena Truan of the University of Salamanca in 2022. 1 Beyond evoking childhood nostalgia, I find Truan's approach noteworthy for several reasons, which I will delve into here.Truan's project primarily entails the development of a comprehensive 3D virtual and interactive model of the early modern Corral del Príncipe (Figs. 1 and 2), situated in Madrid during what is known as the Spanish Golden Age (1492-1681) and renowned for hosting plays (comedias) by esteemed writers such as Félix Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.In its architectural essence, the project mirrors the various endeavours of those who have used The Sims to reconstruct other theatres, such as Shakespeare's Globe, a structure contemporary with many Spanish corrales.2 This connection to the Globe and Shakespeare, one of the most well-known early modern writers, coupled with the relative accessibility of the reconstruction provided by The Sims and YouTube, boosts the potential of Truan's project to significantly enhance the visibility of the corrales and the broader cultural expression they represent.This is important because these courtyard theatres are largely unknown outside 1. Truan, "Simulando"; "El corral del Príncipe." 2. See, for example, McVinney, "Sims 4 Speed Build."
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".