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3D open source animation and distribution

Tube, an open source 3D animation project, is one of the contenders for this year’s Creative Commons Catalyst Grants Program, a funding strategy aiming to “empower individuals and communities deeply rooted in the principles of openness and sharing”. Using Arkipelago, a “free software-based 3D animation/film/arts studio”, Tube “takes up the Gilgamesh story (an artifact of the [...]

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Excerpt from: DeLanda Destratified, by Erik Davis

Chris Langton at Los Alamos later set out to classify all possibly cellular automata — which basically means abstract spaces with many dimensions — depending on how many rules they have. He discovered that there’s a range, a magic region if you will, where your cellular automata game will develop all the unpredictable patterns that [...]

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