{"id":2245,"date":"2012-02-12T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2013-10-14T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T22:23:28","slug":"quasi-objects-of-lorenzo-oggiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2012\/02\/quasi-objects-of-lorenzo-oggiano\/","title":{"rendered":"Quasi-Objects of Lorenzo Oggiano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;La vita \u00e8 un processo reale e autonomo indipendente da qualsiasi specifica manifestazione materiale.&#8221;<\/strong>*<br \/>\n&#8212; Lorenzo Oggiano<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lorenzooggiano.net\/PQOC201011.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oggiano-quasi-objects.jpg\" alt=\"Quasi-objects of Lorenzo Oggiano\" title=\"Quasi-Objects of Lorenzo Oggiano\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oggiano-quasi-objects.jpg 500w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oggiano-quasi-objects-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n &#8220;Quasi-Objects&#8221; regards data actualization, the production of biologically non-functional organisms and ecosystems as transient output of an operative practice: aesthetics of process&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lorenzooggiano.net\">lorenzooggiano.net<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find these forms entirely fascinating, and practically begging for game design applications. <\/p>\n<p>The forms are computer generated.  I have no further details, nothing about the software involved.  But just from looking at these still photos, I can see algorithms at play which would make a terrific Boss Battle in a first-person shooter &#8230; The Blob meets The Matrix &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody ought to make a game based on these principles.  They really should.  I would pay to play such a game, and then pay more for the source code.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/01\/lorenzo-oggianos-quasi-objec.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/butdoesitfloat.com\/2716397\/Life-is-a-real-and-autonomous-process-independent-from-any-specific\">but does it float<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>* &#8220;Life is a real and autonomous process independent from any specific material manifestation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;La vita \u00e8 un processo reale e autonomo indipendente da qualsiasi specifica manifestazione materiale.&#8221;* &#8212; Lorenzo Oggiano &#8220;Quasi-Objects&#8221; regards data actualization, the production of biologically non-functional organisms and ecosystems as transient output of an operative practice: aesthetics of process&#8230; lorenzooggiano.net I find these forms entirely fascinating, and practically begging for game design applications. The forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,211,94,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biology","category-programming","category-somebody-should-make-this-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}