Comments on: It's alive!

It's alive!

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:16:11 -0800

Gary Stasiuk's beautiful Digital Creatures pulls the curtains on the kinematics of geometric objects, after which he plays with the mathematics and user interactivity of generative art and shows how to build the appearance of AI behaviors into Flash objects.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:29:33 -0800

This looks really, really interesting. I can't wait for a usable UI for reading it.

By: evilgenius

evilgenius — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:29:40 -0800

warning - resizes browser

By: gwint

gwint — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:33:39 -0800

Reminds me of the old Praystation.

By: Brainy

Brainy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:51:36 -0800

I realize First Person Shooters have a lot of other overhead, but damn, I want a big Nostromo level with just me, a weak flame thrower and a single Alien that can do all of these things and we just play cat-and-mouse for hours while I try and set the self destruct.

By: Brainy

Brainy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:53:02 -0800

Also, I want to know flash well enough to be able to create one of these things now and put this code into action. Anybody know this sort of stuff well enough to point me to appropriate tutorials on how to set this up?

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:54:43 -0800

That is hot! Thanks.

By: TechnoLustLuddite

TechnoLustLuddite — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:57:27 -0800

neat!

By: autodidact

autodidact — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:07:15 -0800

The resizing is pretty friggin annoying considering I'm at 2560x1600.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:15:35 -0800

Sublime first page. ahhh. Thanks for the visual bliss.

By: growli

growli — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:34:55 -0800

This is cool, but all the generated objects move like kites, not creatures. I understand that reverse kinematics is all about pulling chains of masses to simulate motion, but I'd really love to see a way to animate creatures based on (say) feet pushing off the ground, and muscles pushing off the skeletal structure and each other.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:40:56 -0800

That site has some very cool visuals! wow.

By: indigoskynet

indigoskynet — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:14:02 -0800

Brainy, you may want to look at Jared Tarbell's Evolving Computational Creatures.

By: Brainy

Brainy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:20:49 -0800

Growl, go halfway through the second row of his Digital Creatures presentation (that's why its such a bad interface, its actually a presentation)

By: lostburner

lostburner — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:17:41 -0800

This is excellent. I love organic programming, evolutionary algorithms, and emergent complexity.