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Lirec meeting in Stockholm
The Lirec project is now more or less at the halfway point. We gathered for a meeting last week at SICS Mobile Life Lab in Stockholm and progressed through reports on the various robotic scenarios and showcases. As well as hosting the meeting (and providing us with a tour of Stockholm’s more interesting spots), SICS…
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Germination X Update
Firstly, the multiplayer garden prototype has been running for ages now and has collected a fair few plants across quite a wide area – thanks to all of you testers! This is one section of the world: I’ve also been building the integration between the Lirec AgentMind code and an online representation to start work…
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Hubin Aamiainen – Hub Breakfast
I’m talking at Hub Helsinki on Tuesday (14th September), probably covering FoAM, groworld and perhaps a little bit of livecoding and Naked on Pluto. The official event description is here. It’s one of their breakfast meetings, so starts at 8.30 – which I quite like as it keeps the rest of the day free. The…
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NIMk Sprint day 5
Another re-blog from Naked on Pluto. Our last day of intense work! This consisted of mopping up the details and joining the sections we’d finished from the previous days. It’s still hard to know how it will feel to play, and there will be much tweaking – but at least we have a lot of…
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NIMk Sprint day 1 and 2
This is my update from Amsterdam on day two of our Naked on Pluto residency. Marloes’ report on day 1 is here. Today was all about taking the themes from yesterday and making them into concrete game mechanics we can use. We started by mapping out possible constraints imposed by multiplayer activities. We want a…
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Betablocker DS is livecodable
Betablocker-DS can now be programmed, and I’ve spent the last week testing it on public transport (with headphones…) Lots of niggles to fix, and not enough samples, but the basic interface works. The DS has such a nice feel – it also seems like a more appropriate interface than the gamepad version. It’s still not…
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Hapstar in Molecular Ecology Resources
Our hapstar paper has been published (actually a few weeks back): Teacher AGF. Griffiths DJ (2010) HapStar: automated haplotype network layout and visualization. Molecular Ecology Resources There is a preprint version available on the foam site.
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groworld bazaar at pixelache 2011
Groworld is part of the preliminary program for Pixelache 2011 – we are planning an expanded version of our presence last year, more to follow.
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Genetic programming music patterns #2
A bit more from the growing of music programs department. (Part 1 can be found here along with reasons for doing this). I’ve been trying to generate ever so slightly more complicated patterns, such as: (50 50 0 0 50 50 0 0) Not too exciting, but it proves quite difficult for my naive system…
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BetaBlocker DS
A holiday project run amok, an idea to make version of betablocker for musical livecoding on minimal hardware – eschewing the world of yuppie smartphones for the gameboy ds. The betablocker virtual machine is up and running, sound is working (although only one sample at the moment) and the tiles are rendered using nintendo’s 2D…