Re: URL for interesting...

[bleydorf]

I thought that Java was cross platform.
Is all of swarm going to be in Java, in the near future??? or just the
tcl/tk stuff?

Brad.

Tony Bigbee wrote:
> 
> With the impending arrival of Java to Swarm, I thought it would be useful
> to give a link to a nice site at University of Colorado that involves a
> convergence of visual modeling and simulation, Java and agent based
> approaches.
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/systems/agentsheets/
> 
> "Agentsheets [and Visual AgentTalk] is an agent-based spreadsheet enabling
> a wide range of end users, ranging from children to professionals, to
> create their own SimCityTM-like interactive simulations, domain-oriented
> visual programming languages, knowbots, cellular automata, and games. At
> the the blink of an eye these simulations can be compiled by the Ristretto
> compiler directly into Java applets that can be embedded into web pages."
> 
> While looking through the site, I initially dismissed the work their as a
> bit "toy-like," but realized that a direct comparison with Swarm did not do
> either project justice.  As I spent more time looking through the site and
> thinking about the research, it seemed that the ability to generate a Java
> applet that was a simulation *complemented* nicely what I have heard the
> Hive discuss (explicitness and publishing of experiments as code).  The
> learning, teaching, and web based aspects of the technology are intriguing.
> 
> The demo applets can be found at:
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/systems/agentsheets/Distribution.html
> 
> One issue is that the compiler is only available for macs/powermacs (I
> think).
> It would be nice to hear what others think about this technology and some
> creative ideas about applications, "linkages" with Swarm, and the evolution
> of Java and Swarm.
> 
> -Tony


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