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FRSK04, the fully automated stop-and-frisk robot, has a new home at: frsk04.com. We got a mention in Forbes and in Make.
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it’s almost alive…
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I’ve updated and elaborated my “eat/mate/die” simulation. In the previous version, creatures would eat food, mate, reproduce, and eventually die of starvation or old age. My new version has a number of new features, including social class, private property, farming, and an online mode that runs indefinitely.
You can see the new version at tinyurl.com/samsim. This version is seeded from code that’s running indefinitely on a node.js server. Multiple users can connect at the same and they should see the same thing.
You can also take a look at an “offline” version here: tinyurl.com/samsim2. The offline version let’s you refresh the page to generate a new simulation.
The code is over on github.
I ported my original Processing code to javascript with p5js to allow the simulation to run in the browser. Then I split the code into a client and server application in node.js. Now the simulation runs indefinitely online with hosting from nodejitsu. When you connect to tinyurl.com/samsim, the client downloads the current state of the simulation from the server, and then receives periodic updates. There are still some issues with syncing – you may notice the simulation “jumps” periodically as it’s re-synced.
have you ever noticed that there’s a caricature of a Native American in the NYPD logo? Well there is.