Re: [FRIAM] belly of the beast

2019-12-27 Thread Steven A Smith
glen sed: > Bah! The shiny objects are for diachronics. We episodics dream of storming a > bunker and finding alien versions of ourselves. Tangenting off of the (unintended?) resonance with the "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?": Why just bend a thread when you can give it a good twist and a

Re: [FRIAM] belly of the beast

2019-12-27 Thread Steven A Smith
> Speaking of modeling environments and bellies and beasts, weren’t Glen > and/or Marcus largely behind Swarm? Yup!  I'd love to hear an anecdote or three from them.   I was just in Copenhagen and spent a night with Steen Rasmussen and we reminisced about the early days of ALife... Swarm: The

Re: [FRIAM] belly of the beast

2019-12-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Bah! The shiny objects are for diachronics. We episodics dream of storming a bunker and finding alien versions of ourselves. On 12/27/19 10:06 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Ha! Have you ever had a dream you were storming the beaches of Normandy only > to find the person in the bunker was a

Re: [FRIAM] belly of the beast

2019-12-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
I wouldn't say "behind". I came on the project just as Nelson Minar left and supported it for awhile. Chris Langton, Roger Burkhart, and Nelson were behind it. Manor Askenazi supported it before me. Then Marcus came onboard and did a Herculean amount of work to make it usable and robust. On

Re: [FRIAM] belly of the beast

2019-12-27 Thread Gary Schiltz
Speaking of modeling environments and bellies and beasts, weren’t Glen and/or Marcus largely behind Swarm? On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Steven A Smith wrote: > Nick - > > Our Own Lee Rudolph, was there as well. In the belly of Net Logo, I > think. > > > > Lee Are you out there? > >

[FRIAM] belly of the beast

2019-12-27 Thread Steven A Smith
Nick - > > Our Own Lee Rudolph, was there as well.  In the belly of Net Logo, I > think. > >   > > Lee Are you out there?  > That is an interesting factoid...  I would not have guessed/recognized that legacy.  Net/Logo is definitely an interesting beast. "We all got to be the way we are,