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.
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The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.