Stumbled across this... you can find Tamagotchi Tricks here # Never press the button in the back of the toy. It will reset the game and in effect kill your Tamagotchi chick in an instant. # When the battery power runs out, as long as you change the batteries (2 LR44) quickly, you can still save you...
[Simulation] Boids Boids Boids
Not very up to date but still cool: Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model by Craig Reynolds (1987). The guy who coined the notion of BOIDS The aggregate motion of a flock of birds, a herd of land animals, or a school of fish is a beautiful and familiar part of the natural worl...
[Research] Simulating a tank war
I am still looking for multi-agent simulations. Yvan showed me what he did: Tank Wars. The agents are tank-shaped vehicles equipped with mobile gun turrets. They learn to avoid collisions and fire each other in a two-dimensional maze environment. The tanks' behaviour is controlled by continuous tim...
[VideoGames] 'Other Player': a conference on multiplayer games
Other Players is a conference about the multiplayer phenomenon (December 6 - 8, 2004, in Copenhagen). Combining technical and interface issues to create compelling digital entertainment is in itself a daunting task. In the past years, however, it has become increasingly clear that game designers mu...
[MyResearch] 2 representations of a same thing
Those two pictures represents where the CatchBob players went. I am trying to add this as a news layer above the EPFL map... ...
[Research] Polyblog discussion with ifeedyou
Today we had an interesting discussion with Jerome and the KIS (people in charge of the EPFL weblogs). The point was how to improve the Polyblog project. Fab, Patrick and I have to work on service specifications. ...
[Space and Place] Nobody living underwater
Talking of freak watching, I was wondering whether there are people living underwater (some kind of eco-tech organized secret society) but it seems that it's only limited to video-games. I googled but nothing interesting emerged... It is strange since there are some plans to build underwater hotels...
[Reminder] Coordinates of the EPFL map
Coordinates of the EPFL map $maxX = 533715; $maxY = 152714; $minX = 532660; $minY = 152220; ...
[MyResearch] CatchBob Data Visualization
I finally computed old data drawn from CatchBob. The first picture shows our path on the campus. The second depicts the number of area visited (Patrick and I worked on a php file to parse the raw data, then we used R to compute the visualization). As we can see on the second figure, we drew a bound...
[TheWorld] Casual Surveillance
It is the second time, I got this message on my cell phone: "Hi! I found your phone number, could you call ma back?". This reminds me an old txt Watching the Watcher Watching You (1984-85 NPI/Appa Teleworks I): HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THIS ON YOUR FAVE RAVE PHREAK BOARD: "LEAVE ME A PHONE NUMBER AND I W...