Let's try something new! I found out about a trick that allows me to put this JOGL application into the form of a Java Applet which makes running it more straightforward since it just appears on a web page.

Please give the new version of the Tensegrity World Applet a try and let me now if it works for you without a hitch. You are asked to approve the JOGL extension which comes from Sun Microsystems, but that shouldn't be a problem.

This applet shows growing tensegrities, and they are growing on the basis of "Cell" objects which are each attached to individual tensegrity segments. So far the code of the cell is very simple. It just waits a short while, sprouts a new segment, and then vulcanizes itself. The new segment is given a new cell, which does the same thing only it vulcanizes slightly earlier than the previous one. Eventually this will all be orchestrated by a genome.

In this episode of the podcaset I talk about what this applet is doing, and what it should eventually develop into. Lots of work has been going into getting the tensegrity code prepared to work with the Nuance Engine, although this version doesn't yet show the connection. That will take a little more work.

For those of you in the Netherlands, don't forget the upcoming Greythumb NL Gathering at WORM! I hope to see you there.

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