Comments on: Beautiful, open source creativity at levitated.net

Beautiful, open source creativity at levitated.net

taz — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:47:10 -0800

Walking Things is an environment that generates small, walking computational organisms. "Each walking thing is built up from totally random conditions. Appearance, behavior, and walking characteristics are all assigned from a range enabling effective, functional mobility. Click on a walking thing to permutate its characteristics".

Just one of the very many wonderful (open source) creations at levitated.net (more bugs with bling here). Kick off your shoes, fill your coffee cup or wine glass, and dip in.

By: magullo

magullo — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:30:26 -0800

Thanks taz: that is very nice

By: gsteff

gsteff — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 06:42:51 -0800

Levitated.net's self-description: Levitated.net contains visual poetry and science fun narrated in an object oriented graphic environment. The sketches and applications generated as a byproduct of research are provided online as open source Flash modules. Levitated.net actively engages in the installation of computational structures in and around Austin, TX. The purpose of these structures is to enlighten and inspire while also providing a stable income from which to continue research. In the studio, Levitated.net experiments with large, geodesic interfacing structures intended to bring the computational experience closer to the participant. These pages are attempting to fasten a usable structure around a continually evolving computational ecology, so that it may be observed and enjoyed by participants of the network. More formal code and design ideas are periodically published as tangible commodities in book, paper, and printed form. Very cool site. Though that description is a little buzzword-heavy.

By: ejunek

ejunek — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 06:43:23 -0800

I thought the Flash XML Parser was extremely cool. Awesome site...great link.

By: jopreacher

jopreacher — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:27:14 -0800

Super-Fly. Beautiful stuff. I don't understand it, but I love it. I especially enjoyed clicking through the word fog. And the rune font!

By: talos

talos — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:34:58 -0800

Wow! What a site! The exploration of computation indeed. Thanks taz!

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:48:56 -0800

My favorites are these ones - I love the way they stack and change, and look directly at you once in a while.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:11:50 -0800

Bugs with bling indeed! Lots of cool stuff here - I like this image display. Neat find, taz!

By: BigPicnic

BigPicnic — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:57:37 -0800

That's pretty rad. I guess it would be easy enough [for smart people] to do since it's open-source, but I wish there was a screen saver version.

By: pemulis

pemulis — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:07:18 -0800

So cool.

By: xtian

xtian — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:58:51 -0800

Similar to another favorite, soda play --with an isometric slant. hehe. I was going to add sexbots to the list of creature links. Sadly, sexbots are no more...

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:15:21 -0800

my kitten loves this site.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 19:49:13 -0800

Another awesome link, thanks, Taz!