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Comment by Bala Ramadurai on September 30, 2009 at 8:12am

Hi Valeri, this is an interesting piece. I have heard bits and pieces of this, but am seeing all together with good examples, first time around.

Bala

Comment by Valeri Souchkov on September 30, 2009 at 4:04am

Hi Ellen, welcome. It is my interpretation of the original Fantogramma, but I tried to follow the original work as much as possible. Altshuller also mentioned that the main task of creating "Fantogrammas" was to develop creative imagination, but they are also could be used for inventing new types of ideas or products similarly to morphological boxes.

Comment by Ellen Domb on September 30, 2009 at 3:16am

Thanks, Val: I had only seen a much shorter version of this.

Comment by Valeri Souchkov on September 30, 2009 at 2:39am

Just to add: if anyone who is interested in what Fantogramma is, there is my short article-tutorial on Fantogramma:

www.xtriz.com/cs/Fantogramma.pdf

It is not directly for creating plots, but is a nice tool to generate novel science-fiction (and general fantasy) ideas which can become a basis for new plots.

Comment by Ellen Domb on September 30, 2009 at 1:07am

Extracting the TRIZ concepts from anything you read is excellent practice, and it frequently leads to new business concepts when I have my students apply it to either technical or business situations in their own companies. They will see that some improvement made before they learned about TRIZ is a good example of a physical contradiction, but the solution got more complicated, so by applying trimming/ideality they can improve on the improvement--sorry I can't give details, but this just happened last week and is creating a whole new product area! Meanwhile, TRIZ Journal readers know that we have authors who do this all the time--"map" various fields of learning to TRIZ.

Historical note: Altshuller wrote science fiction under the name H. Altov (one book "Ballad of the Stars" is available in English) and he developed a tool called the "Fantogram" to help develop plots. It will be familiar to all readers of fiction: take a standard situation, and apply a patter of evolution to one element of the situation, then resolve the contradictions that develop. But it isn't original with Altshuller--see everything from Shakespeare to I Love Lucy to the recent discussion of Bollywood adventures.

Comment by Prakasan K on September 3, 2009 at 11:02pm

Valeri, excellent thought piece. In fact, I was discussing this with a friend of mine about some of the best thriller movies and the contradictions there.

Comment by Valeri Souchkov on September 2, 2009 at 2:03am

If you look around and think carefully, you will discover TRIZ principles almost everywhere. Even amid ordinary solutions - once they were inventions. Look around at your desk. Computer mouse? Take away, dynamization, and spheroidality. Keyborad - take away, segmentation. Business cards - take away, segmentation. Pen... how many you can find in a pen? Spheroidality, dynamization, use of liquids, segmentation, prelimiary action... And so forth...

Regarding fiction books and movies, I have noticed far ago that most interesting are those which introduce contradictions. A contradiction brings an intrigue. Take a detective story: it is absolutely not interesting to read a story without a contradiction. What contradiction can be there? For instance, we all assume that a person is a killer. But we also know that he has an aliby - he was at a different place at the time of murder. So how can he be a killer? That's what catches our attention. So it is even more interesting to search works of art which brings contradictions.

Comment by Prakasan K on August 27, 2009 at 11:38am

There is a separate line of research going on in another "creative" industry, which is creative writing and how to use TRIZ concepts there. The moment we think about creative writing, there is a whole set of industries you can think. One important and omnipresent industry associated with this is Film.

How can we use TRIZ for movies, especially stories?

40 Principles, such as # 13 - Other way around - Think about other way around of the story you have in mind. You may get interesting concepts like "The curious case of Benjamin Button" (If you haven't yet seen this movie, watch it..)

Ideal Final Result - Think about the story from IFR perspective, end of the film to beginning (I guess film script writers are already doing this)

Use FAA - Create a Functional Attribute Analysis of all the roles, and add/edit/remove harmful or useful connections..