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by Grim... » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:38 am
I've been thinking about this all morning.
If everyone picks a different thing (a type of tree / plant / bush / flower / insect / monkey) and makes a function emulating the way it lives / grows / reproduces / dies, and then we put it all together, we'll end up with a rain forest.
Does anyone get what the hell I am trying to say?
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by Weirdan » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:44 am
It appears you were talkin about life simulation... the need for environment simulation (such as physics) will be still there, though.
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by n00b Saibot » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:59 am
Weirdan wrote: It appears you were talkin about life simulation... the need for environment simulation (such as physics) will be still there, though.
I have seen such programs where you keep a pet on your screen and take care of it or else it dies
its scary.....
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by pilau » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:06 am
What do you mean? would that be a graphic world.. or.. what?
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by n00b Saibot » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:15 am
pilau wrote: What do you mean? would that be a graphic world.. or.. what?
i think he is bitten by Virtual Reality bug
ummm yeahh.... I have done some VRML, but not this complex
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by pilau » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:41 am
Oh!
Well, sweet. that sounds good!
Umm, we could do a SourceForge for that
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by Deemo » Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:34 am
ive thought about the concept many times. Essentially, we are creating our own version of the Matrix
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by n00b Saibot » Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:17 am
Deemo wrote: ive thought about the concept many times. Essentially, we are creating our own version of the Matrix
OK, let's roooooock
*suddenly remembers something*
uhhh, btw where are the details o_O...
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by pilau » Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:49 am
Yeah, give us more details!
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by Grim... » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:03 am
I don't know, it was kind of a brain dump to get it off my mind.
I guess that if you worked out the ground (height, fertility, water retention, etc) and the environment (weather), then people could just 'plug in' their functions.
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by Grim... » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:04 am
As for output, a good GD programmer could smack out a nice picture, but I thought just storing the results in a MySQL table and letting people use it in their own projects (like
Little Savages ) would be interesting.
Hell, just seeing if stuff would actually
grow would be interesting enough...
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by n00b Saibot » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:38 am
Grim... wrote: like Little Savages
hey that's kinda neat
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by John Cartwright » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:46 am
Deemo wrote: ive thought about the concept many times. Essentially, we are creating our own version of the Matrix
Well we already are in the matrix.. so ...
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by Grim... » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:49 am
The next version of Little Savages is going to be huge and complex.
Maybe with a fully-functioning environment
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by pilau » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:55 am
So let's make a $Matrix['matrix'] Kind of matrix, if you get my drift.
I'm for the idea, it sounds <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> awesome. But we need to know biology and phsysics and stuff.