August 08, 2005
These lines jiggle
Possibly the Greatest Time-Waster I have ever seen. It's as though Tempest has come to life. Create your own amoeba, magic rotating pillar-thing, or weird man walker. These little beasties are surprisingly complex and beautiful, even generated and optimized with artificial intelligence for the races. And the AI is winning. (Java applets, fyi)
Possibly the Greatest Time-Waster I have ever seen. It's as though Tempest has come to life. Create your own amoeba, magic rotating pillar-thing, or weird man walker. These little beasties are surprisingly complex and beautiful, even generated and optimized with artificial intelligence for the races. And the AI is winning. (Java applets, fyi)
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That is awesome! The bipedal walking model is lots of fun to play with. Try reversing gravity on the little guy, he'll do some odd calisthenics on the ceiling. The spring constant on this model is really high compared to gravity, so if you just tweak him a bit with your mouse he will start shaking and wobbling like crazy all over the screen.
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sweet, thanks! i haven't visited this for years.
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I've always thought this was about the best site on the web. And it's not timewasting it's physics experiments.
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Heh, if I had a dollar for every hour wasted on that site... Too funny that they've started RACING them!!
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you're absolutely right, peacay. At least that's what I told my boss. XD
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So could they be made 3-dimensional and work in meatspace?* *disclaimer: IANA physics major
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Ah, meatspace. The greasiest space around. I wish I could respond intelligently, but you see what I came up with.
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Soda! Not what I was expecting. It has indeed been awhile. Though I sorely miss Tempest.