Nerve garden: germinating biological metaphors in net-based virtual worlds

Author: Damer Bruce   Marcelo Karen   Revi Frank  

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

ISSN: 0368-492X

Source: Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics, Vol.32, Iss.1-2, 2003-02, pp. : 174-183

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Abstract

Nerve Garden is a biologically-inspired multi-user collaborative 3D virtual world available to a wide Internet audience. The project combines a number of methods and technologies, including L-systems, Java, cellular automata, and virtual reality modeling language. Nerve Garden is a work in progress designed to provide a compelling experience of a virtual terrarium which exhibits properties of growth, decay and energy transfer reminiscent of a simple ecosystem. The goals of the Nerve Garden project are to create an on-line "collaborative artificial life laboratory" which can be extended by a large number of users for purposes of education and research.