In our “go forth & *” software, we’ve now implemented the previously mentioned shapegenerator. We also introduced fertility cycles, reproduction and the prevention of over- and underpopulation. Our next step is making the packets jump from one ecosystem to the next.
Saturday 14 october, 22.30 hrs
Piksel festival, Bergen Norway
d_u_w by Marloes de Valk
The “Digital Feedback as another State of Matter. Automated Creation Processes as a new Clay” text (http://metabiosis.goto10.org/2006/09/12/another-state-of-matter/) is being published by ap (http://1010.co.uk) for [the] xxxxx [reader] POD book.
Miniphy is a Packet Forth words library that provides various simple math shortcuts and handy functions that can be useful to handle simple 2D vectors.
I remember I’m going to forget what I just remembered.
Sampling one reality
There is an essential difference between the analogue universe and its digital transposition. An analogue model is carried by a continuous signal while its digital alter ego codes the information in a symbolic way using a numerical system.
To give each packet of data its own personality and shape, i’ve made a shape generating script in PF. The shape is determined by the packets “DNA”. In this script the DNA consists of 4 random numbers between 0 and 9, linked to the following characteristics: sociability, speed, reproductivity and love for travelling. Some packets will hate to travel, are super slow, but very social, others are incredibly fast, non-reproductive and totally asocial…
The code can be found here: http://devel.goto10.org
Metabiosis will be shown during the exhibition Natural Habitat in the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL) between the 4th of November and the 16th of December 2006. The exhibition gathers works that create all kinds of new worlds, blending nature, technology and culture. Not the traditional doom scenario’s with 3 eared mice running through fields of GM soya though! This time it is a collection of works with a positive and humorous outlook on a new nature. read full post…
For the workshop Go Forth! during Futuresonic festival in Manchester, I made a little example of how to hook Packet Forth to Pure Data using OSC. The PF part is an Lsystem that draws lines, step by step, growing into a little chaotic cluster. The PD part receives the string that generates the lines and interprets the numbers turning them into sound.
The code (together with all Go Forth! PF workshop material) can be found here: http://devel.goto10.org
Recently I read some things about Lsystems and started building one in Packet Forth. L-systems are a mathematical formalism proposed by Aristid Lindenmayer in 1968 as a foundation for an axiomatic theory of biological development. The system I wrote works like any other Lsystem. It takes a seed and a rule on how to grow from that seed. It is a string rewriting system based on cell divisions in multicellular organisms such as plants. For instance: you start with a seed : A. The rule you use for rewriting is A -> ABA. You can now apply the rule to the seed to create a new string: ABA, and reaply the rule: ABABABA, and so on. Each item in the string is used as directions for a turtle, who visualizes the string. My system produces strings of numbers 0 to 6, interpreted by the turtle as left, right, forward, backward, stop, push and pop. The push and pop make it possible to create branches.
The code can be found on: http://devel.goto10.org
We are working hard on launching the new and improved Metabiosis site! Estimated Time of Arival is september 10 2006. In the mean while, it is a mess on metabiosis.goto10.org :)