tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:43:15 +0000art, aesthetics, collaboration, evolutionhttp://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (nb)Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777.post-4186604105710818844Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:06:00 +00002009-08-19T11:25:52.600-07:00A few years ago, Amazon came out with a project called Mechanical Turk. It's a service by which people can engage the labor of others to do small tasks that computers are not very good at. For example, if you wanted to look up the addresses of certain companies on the web, it would be a very challenging task for a computer, but not that hard for a human. However, it would also not be that http://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/2009/08/mechanical-turk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nb)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777.post-5335265891872621893Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:09:00 +00002009-08-19T10:24:56.942-07:00I finally got around to putting up a gallery of the prints I made from my favorite plants in the Garden for the June open studio at the Sunny Arms. I sold about a third of these and will likely show them again this Fall, along with whatever I come up with for the next version of the Garden.Gallery of Garden Printshttp://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/2009/08/gallery-from-1st-garden-show.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nb)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777.post-3840472617992362386Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:32:00 +00002009-08-06T13:07:45.632-07:00I've spent the past few days working on a new plant genome. To date, I've added a new stem-drawing algorithm and made individual genes more stable. I've also enlarged a plant's overall growing space.Today I created an interface to experiment with recombination. Up until now, all plant reproduction has been asexual. Each plant simply copies itself to create a new plant. Copy errors occur, which http://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/2009/08/recombination-bring-sex-to-garden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nb)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777.post-3206963682325905618Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:18:00 +00002009-07-30T11:53:55.441-07:00It has been about three months since the Garden has fully gone live. It has received a lot of attention. In June, I had an open studio where many people who had never heard of the Garden came and witnessed it first hand, both in front of my computer and on the wall in the form of some of my favorite plants which I printed out and framed. I handed out cards with the address of the Garden and http://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/2009/07/garden-update-going-forward.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nb)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777.post-7257830090094202807Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:43:00 +00002008-02-06T16:04:50.422-08:00I've had several ideas for some time now, each seemingly unrelated, each equally attractive. Finally, last night, I visualized how they might all link together into a single _thing_.I've long wanted to create a slowly growing, evolving garden of plants that I would make a part of my home page for this site. Trees and shrubs would compete for space and survival, tangling with each other, acceptinghttp://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/2008/02/pea-patch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nb)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19438729070930777.post-8179947727634134873Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:00:00 +00002007-08-18T21:25:35.837-07:00artificial life + collaborative aesthetics + image treeshttp://nateboxer.net/notes/alife/2007/03/sold-truck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nb)