self-directed internal network entertainment

more thinking through the issue, after some weird dreams during the night (a consequence of this focused lab intensity, no doubt):

the original concept of the project was for a network of plants to exhibit behaviours that are directed by their own condition.

at this stage of the medialab sprint we've pared down to the behaviour being movement. but we've yet to lock on to a suitable set of, or singular, condition. what i was thinking, apparently while i was sleeping, that the behaviours don't need, necessarily, a TRIGGER. the behaviours are merely reflective of CONDITION and this can be described by the actual steady states of the plants, without stimulus required at all.

for example: if we monitor the moisture levels of the plants. we could have the plants simply act if the data feed is in a particular range. on day 1 we built a moisture sensor that had a range of 0 - 1023, so we could have it that the plants SHIVER if one of them falls on a figure that's a multiple of 5. and we could have them wave, if one of them falls on a figure that ends in 0. in this way, they are reacting to the condition of their environment, but not being necessarily TRIGGERED by an active event. it allows for their own condition to be the TRIGGER.

and this could then be coupled with other sensor readings so that the collective condition is monitored and even the tiniest fluctuations in temperature, lighting or proximity could be used to elicit behaviours.