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Virtual Life in Second Life

Here’s an article on a virtual life experiment in the “online world” Second Life. To AI folks, it’s nothing groundbreaking: fish with flocking algorithms, fine-tuned by some artificial selection (upcoming plans seem to include sexual reproduction and natural selection). What’s really interesting is the social context. Second Life is a subscriber system providing a 3D [...]

mass-produced unique artifacts

If that isn’t a contradiction in terms… They aren’t very pretty, but it’s an interesting idea. Randomised fractal-like generation of a design (think Koch snowflake, Sierpinski gasket) then run it through a 3D printer. It’s breed, brought to you by notnot.

Lots of other cool stuff on their site, including a robot masseus and a highly [...]

bicycle technology

Wheeoo, I thought I was past being surprised at Dutch bicycles, but I’ve had to think again! Walking through Amsterdam is sort of technology fair for things bike-related, and you get used to seeing a family of four all hanging off the same two or three wheels, or somebody moving house with all his worldly [...]

algorithmic art

Some of these are really quite lovely. And most (all?) of the source code is available! It’s Jared Tarbell, with Complexification.net.

now that’s clarity

Forget Excel wizards, this is what every chart should look like.

Any questions?

Clocky — an agrophobic alarm clock

Clocky is an alarm clock that hides from you while you’re sleeping, so you can’t just turn hit snooze when it goes off … you have to look for it first!