2 day workshop as part of the ‘ecology of self-replicating systems’ program. physical computing, max/msp and second life scripting… (5th & 6th september)
En route to The Ecology of Self-Replicating Systems @ Neutral Ground – Regina.
… because i can here is a photo of what long haul travel can do to you.. me in transit, vancouver airport – the time is 10.10am on friday, exactly the same time and day my flight left sydney…
i just noticed this discussion of oracle by Aleister Kronos.
http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/05/oracle-of-culturegion.html
oracle will be de-rezzed forever at the end of this week – though i already have plans for some of its parts in a the institute of the self on new caerleon.
a short video of an experiment in exponential self replication based on simple recurring cell divisions (the cells take a little while to get going..this is a five minute time lapse of a thirty minute period.)
2.48pm: startup windows…
2.49pm: log into publisher… delve into amazon web services for my keys and download s3 safe to make a ‘bucket’ in my new amazon account.
3.00pm: upload .x model created and uv mapped in blender… (uv texture saved as .tga in directory model is exported to.)
3.01pm: use publisher to upload model to amazon server
3.02pm: back to ‘creator’ application.. model is there ready to use.. drag and drop into my park with uv texture attached..
next step… setting up the server and trying to access a park externally… oh… and looking at multi user support…
4.30pm: restart my laptop in windows. (hoping that cross platform support is high on the VastPark development list)
3.34pm: point browser towards VastPark beta tools download
4.36pm: download the VastPark Browser. Install. (which also automatically searches for dependencies and asks to install the required .NET framework)
4.42pm: install complete. attempt to connect to a demo park listed on the forums
4.52pm: explored the maze of dark park..
4.54pm: pointing browser towars the tutorials page
4.55pm: downloading ‘creator’ and starting tutorial no. 1
5.17pm: made first basic world in the creator tool.. (took some time to work out: shift lmb to drag object)
5.30pm: played with other tutorials and available content.. download publisher, send email for publisher account and make an amazon web services account in readyness..
5.40pm: back to os x and building some bits in blender ready to export as .x and import into a park….
to be continued….
