I think this sort of virtual world is an excellent idea. I agree with Benjamin Johnston's idea of a unified object model where everything consists of beads.
I notice you mentioned distributing the computation. This would certainly be valuable in the long run, but for the first version I would suggest having each simulation instance run on a single machine with the fastest physics capable GPU on the market, and accepting that it will still run slower than real time. Let an experiment be an overnight run, and use multiple machines by running multiple experiments at the same time. That would make the programming for the first version more tractable. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=126863270-d7b0b0 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
