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Generating music emergently.
Signless, ruleless inner-city traffic control - forcing drivers and pedestrians to interact at around 20mph, the maximum speed at which eye contact still works; our ancestral top-running-speed.
"If the space is bigger than 3/8 of an inch, the bees will build comb. If it is less than 1/4 inch, they will attach propolis."
Beautiful icy-liquid pollen turbulence, in Proce55ing.
Emergent-looking hexagonal wall lighting. Very Blake's Seven.
"I think that GAs are a terrific approach to searching large, ill-defined spaces, in this case the space of 'nice' melodic ideas."
Vast and organic-looking, with a detailed catalogue of its component parts.
Of suspiciously good quality since the Slate article appeared. Perhaps because the visitors know why they're there, as opposed to the confused, random wanderers from the first wave of popularity.
"We want to give them an overall goal, as in carrying out surveillance of a region, but you don't want to tell every one of a thousand different vehicles exactly what to do."
Wooden boxes with wooden arms, that repeat tapped patterns after a delay, and can be piled up to tap one another. A death-watch beetle orchestra.
Organically designed furniture and ornaments, including a rabbit-tunnel lamp and fly-orbit lampshade.
"How could two robots that started with exactly the same hardware and software nevertheless develop a relationship where one appears to exploit the other?"
"One way to grow a Crowd Crystal would be to dissolve non-participant atoms in the crowd with the instruction to stand still when the density of the crowd drops below a certain level."
"Combined view of 50 photos on Flickr tagged with "Eiffel". Each photo is from a different user."
Preview of his increasingly-preposterous evolutionary game. "Wright pointed out that the yellow creatures he was snacking on were actually created by other players and pulled off of a shared creature database."