Project Number
- 196
Title
- Nerve Garden
Description
- Virtual environment digital terrarium for growing synthetic plant and animal organisms.
Contact
- Bruce Damer
Affiliation
- BIOTA Special Interest Group of the Contact Consortium
Address
- P.O. Box 66866
- Scotts Valley, California 95067-6866
- bdamer@ccon.org
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- The Nerve Garden allows users to plant seeds in a digital terrarium and witness the growth of familiar and strange plant and animal structures.
- "Through an artful combination of L-systems, VRML, neural neworks, Java, the Web, and a mouse and dataglove interface, participants sow seeds in cyberspace."
- "How can we forget the fascination that our terrariums, aquariums, or chemical crystal gardens held over us when we were children? Watching beautiful and functional structures emerge and then decay taught us a great deal about life and our own ultimate destiny."
Sight
- graphics workstations, networked browsers
Sound
Touch
- dataglove
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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