I'm downloading Net Logo in the background. Logo is making a come back in this new form, thanks to "complexity studies".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5583591181/in/set-72157625646071793 Turtles have become "agents" and the typical thing is to have thousands of them. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/4.1.3/ Capturing the ideas in these new "chaos" related curricula was one of my objectives in building a super primitive ASCII graphic system built on Tractors versus Turtles. The Tractor-as-agent motif links me, conveniently to the Make: / DIY / open source / hacker vision of the Open Source Tractor: http://opensource.com/life/11/4/open-source-tractors-and-diy-manufacturing http://theshortearedowl.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/an-open-source-tractor/ And also: the 50 machines needed for your semi-autonomous campus / village / community. http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS_tools I hope to have some of my Tractor talks ready for lightning sharing at Pycon this March. Early draft of my code: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/ Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
