APENDIX A : U SEFUL INTERNE T RESOURCE S
These Internet links were last accessed August 2000.
ARTIFICIAL
LIFE
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GENERIC SITES
Artificial Life “Games” Homepage - http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/luigi/lupa_algames.html Artificial Life Links - http://www.alcyone.com/max/links/alife.html Artificial Life Online 2.0 - http://alife.org/ Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life (Moshe Sipper) http://lslwww.epfl.ch/~moshes/caslinks.html Open directory project – Computers: Artificial Life http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Life/ The Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept, CALResCo’s educational site http://www.calresco.org/ The New A-life database - http://www.aridolan.com/ad/adb/adib.html
ARTIFICIAL
LIFE
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PROJECTS
Biota.org – The digital biology project - http://www.biota.org/ Blobs Project – Blobworld http://users.newscientist.net/cefn/easy/adapsyst/blobproj/blobstar.htm G.R.A.L. Research Group on Artificial Life - http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/ CyberScience : Fich 046 : PolyWorld http://www.mediaport.net/CyberScience/BDD/fich_046.en.html TechnoSphere III - http://www.technosphere.org.uk/index.htm The Artificial Life Group at the MIT - http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/rauch/alife/ The Swarm development group - http://www.swarm.org/ The Tierra Project – A network-wide biodiversity reserve for digital organisms http://www.construct.net/tierra/
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I nf o rma t io n V i s u a l iz a t ion An Atlas of Cyberspaces - http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html Cartia, Inc. – Mapping the Information Landscape - http://www.cartia.com/ Cichlid Visualization Software - http://moat.nlanr.net/Software/Cichlid/ Cyberspace geography visualization - http://www.girardin.org/luc//cgv/ Principia Cybernetica Homepage - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ Rhizome: strrynight - http://www.rhizome.org/starrynight/ Som – Self-organizing map for interpreting large high-dimensional datasets http://www.cis.hut.fi/research/som-research/som.shtml
J av a sc r i p t Javascript Resources @ scripts.co.uk - http://www.scripts.co.uk/index.html Teach Yourself JavaScript 1.1 in a Week – http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/archive/1575211955/ewtoc.html VRML Script tutorial @ 3D Tech - http://www.fatech.com/tech/vrml/tutorial/script.shtml
J o u rn a l s The MIT Press journals - http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals.tcl Biological Cybernetics - http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00422/index.htm Complexity International - http://www.csu.edu.au/ci/ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation - http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html Kybernetes - http://www.mcb.co.uk/k.htm
NEWSGROUPS comp.ai.alife – on artificial life in general comp.ai.genetic – on genetic algorithms and evolution
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comp.lang.vrml – everything about VRML, good way to get help sci.virtual-worlds – on web 3D and internet society, ecology, etc.
Softwa re agents Boids, Background and updated by Craig Reynolds - http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ Individual Based Models - http://www.red3d.com/cwr/ibm.html John Holland’s ECHO - http://www.santafe.edu/projects/echo/echo.html MIT Media Lab: Software Agents group - http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/ Multi Agent Systems – Artificial Lifeforms using VRML http://www.atom.co.jp/vrml2/agent/index.html Software Agents Mailing List FAQ - http://dent.ii.fmph.uniba.sk/ui/faqs/agent_faq.html SOMAS – A Workshop on self-organization in Multi-Agent Systems http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~rsmith/SOMAS/ Starlogo for Java - http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/Projects/starlogo/ UMBC Agent Web - http://agents.umbc.edu/
VRML 3D Lab - http://www.people.nnov.ru/fractal/VRML/3DLab.htm 3D Site: VRML – resources, tools, examples - http://www.3dsite.com/n/sites/3dsite/cgi/VRMLindex.html Building 3D Virtual Environments by Matthew Lewis - http://www.cgrg.ohiostate.edu/~mlewis/VRML/Class/syl.html comp.lang.vrml FAQ - http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrml/faq/ Floppy’s VRML Guide - http://www.vapourtech.com/vrmlguide/ “Living Worlds” – working group of the vrml consortium – http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/living-worlds/ The VRML Repository - http://www.web3d.org/vrml/vrml.htm The annotated VRML97 Reference Manual - http://www.best.com/~rikk/Book/
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VR Course by Dr L Jankovichttp://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/courses/SEM334/VRLectures2000/index.htm VRML Site magazine - http://www.vrmlsite.com/ VRML Home @ 3D Tech - http://www.fatech.com/tech/vrml/
WEB 3D Captain Barcode’s War Room (Links to everything related to world building) http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6902/ Focus on Web 3d Homepage - http://web3d.about.com/compute/web3d/ Realitee Virtuelle et Utilisation de la 3D sur Internet -http://rzr.online.fr/docs/net3d/all.htm Web 3D Consortium – http://www.web3d.org/
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