idea

1/08/2007  4:33:30 PM  seanske  Igor  i had this idea
1/08/2007  4:33:36 PM  seanske  Igor  of using text characters
1/08/2007  4:33:43 PM  seanske  Igor  to form parts of a creature
1/08/2007  4:33:53 PM  seanske  Igor  sorta like walking armour
1/08/2007  4:33:56 PM  seanske  Igor  the characters are overlayed
1/08/2007  4:34:00 PM  seanske  Igor  and overlapped
1/08/2007  4:34:06 PM  seanske  Igor  to create a form of a creature
1/08/2007  4:34:08 PM  seanske  Igor  sorta like transformers
1/08/2007  4:34:17 PM  seanske  Igor  they are generated
1/08/2007  4:34:19 PM  seanske  Igor  by a user typing in a word
1/08/2007  4:34:23 PM  seanske  Igor  via the keyboard
1/08/2007  4:34:30 PM  seanske  Igor  that word turns into a “letterbot”
1/08/2007  4:34:33 PM  seanske  Igor  and starts moving around
1/08/2007  4:34:36 PM  seanske  Igor  to evolve
1/08/2007  4:34:50 PM  seanske  Igor  it could look up a synomn on a dictionary database
1/08/2007  4:34:55 PM  seanske  Igor  and become more “beefy”
1/08/2007  4:35:00 PM  seanske  Igor  with more letters or larger font

 Example

 Sean

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3 Responses to “idea”

  1. Igor says:
    August 2, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Haha, nice copy-paste from the MSN convo. I liked this idea by the way, maybe we can incorporate it in some way?

  2. Ben says:
    August 2, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    yah, if we do the ecosystem route, we could have the string input determine the genetic code of the animals. So you past in something from your blog, it takes the first 50 characters, converts them to numbers, and converts those numbers into genetic attributes of the animal (hitpoints, speed, etc..)

  3. Chris says:
    August 2, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    Interesting idea, using letters to build creatures. It’s very abstract and creative, could be something to consider if the idea is fleshed out a little more. It could source the letters from other places too, other than user input, like google search results, or network traffic or something. I’m not sure how it would work though, in terms of the physics, how you would incorporate a spring and mass muscle system into the shapes of the letters.

    I suppose it could go more in depth than that too, we could even have the environment built out of letters.

    The example looks cool, like some sort of weird dog or something.

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