More Virtual Organisms

October 3rd, 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4272418.stm

A possible form of virtual life? Although its completely manmade, this is the sort of thing that might be relevant to the organism project. The BBC news article discusses it in terms of being a contagious disease, like a real organism.

Flash Organism Scripts

Having studied the scripting on blogged flash animations, I see that while being complex scripts, and based on randomness they have no potential for growth or alternative outcomes.

And they certainly aren’t affected by any external factors.