Re: [-empyre-] metacreation tools

[Mitchell Whitelaw <mitchell.whitelaw@canberra.edu.au>]

There's a mass of freeware tools for exploring a-life techniques... 
check out http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Life/

Some of these are "creative" tools, and some aren't... if you are 
interested in images I would recommend Tatsuo Unemi's SBART - similar 
to Karl Sims' image breeder (though the grammar is not so rich). SBART 
is here - http://www.intlab.soka.ac.jp/~unemi/sbart/ (but note that the 
Mac OSX download link is incorrect - it should be 
ftp://ftp.t.soka.ac.jp/alife/SBART30aB.sit)

To develop original processes, there's not much alternative to 
programming in some form... there are learner-friendly options; people 
use Flash and Director; a nice freeware option that I've started using 
is Processing (http://processing.org). Very cool, easy programming, 
compiles to Java. There are some a-life examples on the web site.

On 10/11/2004, at 12:09 PM, Nemo Nox wrote:

> What are the available tools for artists
> interested in working with metacreation
> but with no programming skills?
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> Nemo Nox
> http://www.nemonox.com
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Mitchell Whitelaw
Program Director, Media / Multimedia Production
School of Creative Communication
University of Canberra
http://creative.canberra.edu.au/mitchell