Re: Fibonacci

my problem with borrowing from D@H is that i'm not even sure that
tensegrities should be evolved towards locomotion.  part of the reason
is been-there-done-that, but also i'm thinking about applications in
architecture.   regardless, though, you're right that it's a good idea
to have some kind of energy economy at work, and energy can be a
reward for anything we want.

think about embryology and gestation and the like.  does a developing
baby in the womb have to perform some task in order to get growth
energy?  no, of course not, they are parasites on their mothers.
their development can be influenced by how successfully their mothers
are able to acquire nutrition.  the analogy would be to have a birth
happen only after a certiain amount of energy has been saved up
(nutrition in the egg).

anybody else have any ideas?

On Nov 26, 2007 10:43 PM, Matt Dick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, so each bar is in state, and the state is affected by the gene
> it runs into.  Could we borrow from the original Darwin@Home now, and
> the organism as a whole could get a certain amount of "energy" related
> to how far it traveled in the last period.  That energy is then usable
> by the bars.  For a bar in the "grow fast" state, it is efficient in
> using that energy to grow fast.  In a "grow slowly" state, the bar can
> only grow a little with a given amount of energy.  The tensegrity gets
> energy according to how quickly it covers ground, so only with so much
> energy would a "grow another bar" state yield the result.  So in oder
> to grow another bar, two adjacent bars must be in the right state, and
> the tensegrity as a whole must be gathering enough energy....?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> msd
>



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Gerald de Jong
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