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Nerve Garden: A Public Terrarium in Cyberspace

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Virtual Worlds (VW 1998)

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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 VRML. Nerve Garden is a work in progress designed to provide a compelling experience of a virtual terrarium which exhibits properties of growth, decay and cybernetics 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.

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References

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Online References

  1. Karl Sims’ creatures are viewable on Biota.org at: http://www.biota.org/conf97/ksims.html

  2. The Swarm Simulation System is described at http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/

  3. Tom Ray’s Tierra is fully described at http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/tierra.html

  4. Laurens Lapre’s L-parser L-system software tools and examples can be found at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljlapre/

  5. Full background on the goals and projects of the Contact Consortium are at http://www.ccon.org and its special interest group, Biota.org are at http://www.biota.org

  6. Nerve Garden I can be entered at http://www.biota.org/nervegarden/index.html with a suitable VRML 2.0 browser installed.

  7. The Nerves home page, with language specification, examples and downloads is at: http://www.digitalspace.com/nerves/

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  1. Biota.Org, a Special Interest Group of the Contact Consortium, Contact Consortium, P.O. Box 66866, Scotts Valley, CA, 95067-6866, USA

    Bruce Damer, Karen Marcelo & Frank Revi

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  1. International Institute of Multimedia, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, F-92916, Paris La Defense Cedex, France

    Jean-Claude Heudin

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Damer, B., Marcelo, K., Revi, F. (1998). Nerve Garden: A Public Terrarium in Cyberspace. In: Heudin, JC. (eds) Virtual Worlds. VW 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68686-X_17

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