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The PHP rainforest

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:29 pm
by Luke
What ever happened to that rainforest that a few of you were building when I first started coming here...? I think it was pilau and a few others. I was really interested in seeing a finished or even half-finished product, but the forums where it used to be are gone.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:20 pm
by John Cartwright
It was clearcutted. :lol:

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:27 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That just sounds so wrong... 8O

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:34 pm
by John Cartwright
Everah wrote:That just sounds so wrong... 8O
Why? :?

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:40 pm
by Luke
haha who clearcutted it? It sounded nifty!

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:43 pm
by Chris Corbyn
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:haha who clearcutted it? It sounded nifty!
It was just too complex for anybody to pull together and stop going off on tangents. It's on SF.net if you want to request a project takeover.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:44 pm
by Luke
Definately don't have that kind of time at the moment, but uhh... how far did it get?

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:02 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Jcart wrote:
Everah wrote:That just sounds so wrong... 8O
Why? :?
Clearcutting rainforests... just sounds so un-green...

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:50 pm
by Chris Corbyn
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Definately don't have that kind of time at the moment, but uhh... how far did it get?
There a few conceptual snippets posted but nothing that anybody was interested enough to focus on. Everybody was too busy talking about groing plants and getting diseases etc without even consiering the fundamental engine from which this thing needs to run. The planning for something like this alone would take years in reality. It's AI at a very high level.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:23 pm
by Luke
Seems like a community as large as PHPDN could have accomplished it!!

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:26 pm
by Jixxor
What was the concept behind it? It's purpose? etc.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:09 pm
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
To simulate live data from a growing interacting rainforest of plant and animal life (outputting it was another separate task).

An approximation would be possible, but unfortunately the will did not outlive the initial enthusiasm. Maybe someday, under different circumstances it might happen...

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:54 am
by Grim...
I just wanted to see if I could make grass grow :(

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:45 am
by RobertGonzalez
I tried once, but getting the soil out of my keyboard after the grass died was a pain, so I gave up on green-thumbery.