Hello, > Von: "Darren Cook" <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [Computer-go] CG2013, in Yokohama > > I just stumbled upon a related event. It is the day after the CG2013 > conference, same location: > http://entcog.c.ooco.jp/CGIW/CGIW2013.html
A washing machine filled with many old single Lego(TM) bricks generates random complexes. See a photo report on my first such experiment here: http://www.althofer.de/old-lego-in-washing-machine.html In the Yokohama workshop "Computer Games and Intelligence Workshop" I will give a talk related to this, entitled Random Lego(TM) Structures and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures. It is all still preliminary and tentative. Depending on partners in conversation, I can stress different aspects of the approach. * For Biology or Chemistry: It is a Lego model of the Miller-Urey experiment on amino acid formation in primordial soup. See also http://www.althofer.de/miller-experiment-with-lego.html * For Physics: It is an experiment visualising aspects of entropy and self-organisation. * For "our" community: The washing machine is a primitive analog Monte Carlo agent. It may be used in interactive "generative design" procedures. * For mathematicians: It helps to visualize and teach combinatorics. * For people from art and culture: It establishes a new branch of machine-assisted modern art. ************************* If I should ever meet a rich person from the world of fine arts, (s)he might tell me a good 4-digit number, and I would sell her/him the original "Art Emiele Miniature I", including a certificate on its authenticity. Ingo. Disclaimer: Lego(TM) is a trade mark of Lego Juris A/S (Billund, Denmark). My work is neither sponsored nor authorized nor supported by LEGO Juris. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
