Emergent Systems

[Greven]

I sense somekind of "now we just discuss it for academic reasons", meaning that people seem to think it would be to hard to make!

In danish we have saying (freely translated):

When the wind is blowing some take cover,
some builds a cover,
yet again a few are building windmills...

[Ulciscor]

Well we will be deciding from discussion whether it can be made to work so it's a good thing really!

[Greven]

Yes it is. But I would hate if people got discouraged!!!! Just becuase it seem hard to make! Nothing comes for free.

[PurpleYouko]

Actually Greven, I think this may be really going somewhere.

I don't think it is fully academic for the sake of it.

I am beginning to develop ideas that could potentially revolutionise artificial life sims if it works the way I thnk it could.
There are still some major difficulties to overcome though  :(

[Greven]

SOUNDS REALLY GOOD PY!!!!

Really it does! We should actually chat instead of posting our ideas on the forum. The it would be much faster. Really this could be amazing!

[Greven]

Make a document, send it onto the forum or just email me it!

Oh I am so excited!

[Greven]

Now I am beginning to sound like Bots ;)

[PurpleYouko]

Aren't 64 bits for a command quite a lot?

Yes 64 bits is a lot but it is still microscopic compared to real DNA

The reason I suggest 64 bits instead of 32 is simply that VB thinks in 64 bit packages, as do all modern windows applications. The "Long" type variable is by far the fastest processed variable type in VB so using this type of variable makes the program run faster.

[Ulciscor]

So will the reductions suggested work?

[PurpleYouko]

Really it does! We should actually chat instead of posting our ideas on the forum. The it would be much faster. Really this could be amazing!

Granted it would be faster but I kind of prefer this to be out where everybody can see it.

A document? maybe but I don't think I'm quite that far advanced with the idea just yet.

[PurpleYouko]

So will the reductions suggested work?

Please explain. You've lost me  :blink:

[Greven]

Just write down what you think. Brainstorm! Havn't you learned that? Well it works for me, and sometimes amazing ideas come out!

Btw. VB thinks in 32 bit! That does windows to!

[Ulciscor]

Yeah that is a big number, but can't we rule out some commands as impossible?  Rule out others as duplicates?

Would this help reduce it a bit?

[PurpleYouko]

Btw. VB thinks in 32 bit! That does windows to!

You are probably right about that now that I come to think of it. maybe a "long" uses 32 bits and not 64. Still freaking big though.  :D

Ah well, can't be right all the time.  :)

[Greven]

PY I dont know what you are thinking, but take some time off, write a doc about what you have in mind, just skecth it roughly, we always get back to details latter. I would love to know (and help) what it is, but well I am not a mind reader!