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| Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems |
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Complete video at:
http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_En
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Game designer Will Wright and musician Brian Eno
discuss the generative systems used in their
respective creative works. This clip features
original music by Brian Eno.
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Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time."
In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno give
an intense clinic on the joys and techniques of
"generative" creation.
Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by
cellular automata such as Conway's "Game of Life,"
where just a few simple rules could unleash
profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied
dynamic patterns. Cellular automata were the
secret ingredient of Wright's genre-busting
computer game "SimCity" in 1989. Eno was
additionally inspired by Steve Reich's "It's Gonna
Rain," in which two identical 1.8 second tape
loops beat against each other out of phase for a
riveting 20 minutes. That idea led to Eno's "Music
for Airports" (1978), and the genre he named
"ambient music" was born.
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996*
to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well
as to become the seed of a very long term cultural
institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to
provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper"
mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. We
hope to creatively foster responsibility in the
framework of the next 10,000 years - The Long Now
Foundation
Tags : spore sim sims maxis ea electronic arts video games design demo preview computers programming creator creating |
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Durée : 639 s |
| Fritjof Capra, The Systems View of Life |
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"In this first lecture of the course, I would like
to give you an outline of the new understanding of
life that is now emerging at the forefront of
science. As I mentioned before, it is a conception
of life based on systemic thinking and some of the
new concepts and mathematical techniques of
complexity theory. It allows us for the first time
to integrate the biological, cognitive, and social
dimensions of life".
Tags : systems design ecology sustainability Capra physics master lecture university |
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Affichage : 16034
Durée : 584 s |
| Googel Developers Day US - Testing Distributed Systems |
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Testing Distributed Systems with AJAX, XML -
Lessons Learned from Google Checkout
Martin Omander, Jason Huggins
Google Checkout is a good example of a distributed
system involving several websites, the end user
experience being powered by Ajax interactions,
synchronous and asynchronous web services.
Automating functional testing for that kind of
architecture is a challenge. In this session we
will provide an overview of the Google Checkout
product and API, then present Mendoza, an open
source testing framework that we use for
functional testing of Checkout API integrations,
using Selenium and a java test server. Mendoza has
been designed in a generic way and can be
leveraged to perform functional testing of any
distributed system of similar architecture.
Tags : GDD07 GDD07US AJAX XML |
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Affichage : 58901
Durée : 2962 s |
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