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hopefully f.wishent tree

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The Java applet f.wish by boredom research (see also the interview on furtherfield)- is a graphical reinterpretation of the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees on folly.

At f.wish you can hang your personal and public wishes (e.g. for next year) onto a tree and read those of others (see above).

f.wish has a nice spongy letter-from-spring-gravity simulation (with the partial use of the traer.physics library for processing). Sean Carroll of the physics blog cosmic variance was just discussing physics and in particular gravity in games like this (partially physically uncorrect) game but also a Ninja game and the book “physics of the buffyverse” (seems to be similar in intention to this book) were topics in his post.

Another gravity game has a possibility to change directions while flying but no walls and thus you may get lost in space easily. And there is a dial which shows you how far you are lost.

posted by nad on Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 1:16 am // art and design, computer vision, games, physics, software, trips. // RSS 2.0 feed skip to the end and leave a response // pinging is currently not allowed //

3 Responses to “hopefully f.wishent tree”

  1. timh Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 12:49 am

    There is another nice physics driven game:kumoon
    It is a first-person-puzzle-shooter-physics-game. (with scale-paper textured walls :-) )

  2. Fub Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 9:40 pm

    Excellent!

  3. nad Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    ?

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