{"id":2417,"date":"2013-06-23T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2013-10-14T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T22:48:01","slug":"openworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2013\/06\/openworm\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenWorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“OpenWorm is an open source project dedicated to creating a virtual C. elegans<\/em> nematode in a computer.”<\/p>\n

openworm.org<\/a>\"OpenWorm<\/a><\/p>\n

Via Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wagner James Au sez, “OpenWorm, as the name suggests, is a collaborative open source project to computationally create a simple artificial life form — an earth worm — from the cellular level to a point where it’s sophisticated enough to solve basic problems. They’re still in early stages, with the latest demo, a developer on the project tells me, being ‘a particle simulation of five connected muscle segments moving together through a body of water.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also Caenorhabditis elegans<\/a> @ Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em> \/\u02ccse\u026an\u0275r\u00e6b\u02c8d\u026at\u026as \u02c8\u025bl\u025b\u0261\u00e6nz\/ is a free-living, transparent nematode (roundworm), about 1 mm in length, which lives in temperate soil environments.
\n\"Caenorhabditis<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes. The Handy Vandal approves. More of this, please.<\/p>\n

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Update: October 14, 2013<\/h3>\n

I added this post to the “Somebody Should Make This Game<\/strong>” category. <\/p>\n

Modeling a nematode is fine, hooray for Science. <\/p>\n

But man does not live by Education alone — we also need Entertainment. <\/p>\n

Can I get a giant weaponized self-assembling cyber-nematode as a first-person shooter<\/strong>, in a secret weapon-breeding hive beneath a Soylent Green factory? Anyone …? <\/p>\n

I’d pay<\/em> to play that game!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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