Let's make a rain forest (using PHP and MySQL)

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Let's make a rain forest (using PHP and MySQL)

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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?

[edit]This rambling post has become a proper project. More details at http://life-project.org/forums/index.php [/edit]
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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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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 8O its scary..... :evil:
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What do you mean? would that be a graphic world.. or.. what?
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pilau wrote:What do you mean? would that be a graphic world.. or.. what?
i think he is bitten by Virtual Reality bug :lol: ummm yeahh.... I have done some VRML, but not this complex :)
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Oh!
Well, sweet. that sounds good!
Umm, we could do a SourceForge for that :P
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ive thought about the concept many times. Essentially, we are creating our own version of the Matrix
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Deemo wrote:ive thought about the concept many times. Essentially, we are creating our own version of the Matrix
OK, let's roooooock :D

*suddenly remembers something*

uhhh, btw where are the details o_O...
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Yeah, give us more details!
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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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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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Grim... wrote:like Little Savages
hey that's kinda neat ;)
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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 ... 8O
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:)

The next version of Little Savages is going to be huge and complex.

Maybe with a fully-functioning environment ;)
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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&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> awesome. But we need to know biology and phsysics and stuff.
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