A Simple World

Language: Processing or Javascript

Overview

Welcome to A Simple World! This project/app is another one I made just for the fun of it. As you may or may not know by now, I love art. I do a lot of art on the side. So when I get the time to code random cool stuff like this, I get to bridge the gap between art and code! I love making random animations. This one is very dear to me. I stole Dr. Ackley's living eco structure idea and built my own from it. This application is a very simple ecosystem with a Plant represented by the colored squares and a Plant Eater represented by the circle. They can not survive without each other. The Plant Eater will feed off the Plants and replicate. The Plants need to be eaten, or they will overtake the world. Together, they will live forever! This application never halts. I built it like that on purpose. It is a living piece of code.

I love making stuff like this! There is a whole lot of research ideas that I can implement here. Maybe I will start to explore some of these ideas in the future when I have more time. I love bridging the gap between art, science, and software engineering. I want to adapt this to be interactive with a projector and a Kinect. I have linked to the Processing GitHub. If you wish to play with the javascript, please steal the source code from my website. I also linked to some artistic interpretation of this application on my medium page.