August 15, 2011

more sketches





this last sketch is thinking out an idea about how to make a network of plants behave collectively, and to keep 'behaving' but also allowing them a chance to rest, or to achieve a resting state.

the general plan now is that one plant starts the process (a variety of trigger options are being considered including high or low temperature, lack of water, even presence of a human) and causes the rest of the network to twitch. then, the last plant to stop swaying and come to rest, is the plant that causes the rest of the network to twitch. and then, again, the last one to come to rest, is the one that causes the rest of the network to twitch.... and so on and so on. this way the plants are always twitching, and they set the conditions of the pattern of behaviour.

there'll need to be a resting point though, so they don't go on twitching 24/7.

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