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# Can a game teach you the fine art of pasta rolling?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/can-a-game-teach-you-the-fine-art-of-pasta-rolling/
- Published: 2011-06-27T21:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:52:55.000Z
- Description: Of the many wonderful uses of games, teaching people how to make pasta was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must. “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of compu
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Of the many wonderful uses of games, [teaching people how to make past](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13856559?ref=killscreen.com)a was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must.

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> “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of computer science, Marco Roccetti, who invented the software together with his undergraduate students.  
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> “The first reason was that we wanted to find a new way of preserving the culinary, cultural heritage of our home town, and the second was that making tortellini is a hard task.  
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> “So designing and architecting a game based on that was a hard task from a technical viewpoint too.”  
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> Tortellino X-perience is a multimedia teaching game combining a traditional video with a 3D representation of the player’s hands.  
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> Players watch a real pasta maker demonstrate each step of the complicated tortellini-making process in the video.  
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> Then they have to simulate her actions; from making, kneading and rolling out the dough to cutting, stuffing, sealing and twisting it into tortellini.  
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> Their movements are tracked by gesture recognition software using a webcam, so they can see them shown in real time on the screen through stop-motion video.

  
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