How do you engage in unstructured, open-ended imaginative play as an adult? What's your medium? What's the experience like?
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More down to earth, you can always plug in random parameters into the latest simulation you wrote and see what develops.
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Wolfram did that for a decade and interesting things only happened a few times... rule 110 and 37 I think. Rest was boring patterns
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Medium is imagination, experience is kind of like what VR/AR should have been.
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Lately, making art using code for my plotter.
The experience often involves a few days of obsessive pondering. "Oh thats an interesting idea. How would I make that?". Finally I code something up and start exploring the space of fun variants and modifications.
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