[Edu-sig] Net Logo / Tractor Art

[kirby urner]

I'm downloading Net Logo in the background.

Logo is making a come back in this new form, thanks to "complexity studies".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5583591181/in/set-72157625646071793

Turtles have become "agents" and the typical thing is to have thousands of them.

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/4.1.3/

Capturing the ideas in these new "chaos" related curricula was one of
my objectives in building a super primitive ASCII graphic system built
on Tractors versus Turtles.

The Tractor-as-agent motif links me, conveniently to the Make: / DIY /
open source / hacker vision of the Open Source Tractor:

http://opensource.com/life/11/4/open-source-tractors-and-diy-manufacturing

http://theshortearedowl.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/an-open-source-tractor/

And also:  the 50 machines needed for your semi-autonomous campus /
village / community.

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS_tools

I hope to have some of my Tractor talks ready for lightning sharing at
Pycon this March.

Early draft of my code:  http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/OST/

Kirby