===vegetable/vegetal mind===

highly unstructured notes, from meeting between foam + (ToT) on 28-V-2008

  * making sure that people do not think they are a gardener but they are the plant.
  * what of the roots...
above you may be far away but below ground roots can touch. how deep do they go and what does it mean. communication?
  * expression through reproduciton
  * breeding through insects.
  * hemaphrodite ferns. "haremification" 

  * synthetic nature.
    * mixtures of ornaments and realistic plant nature.
    * algorithmic plants.
    * representing 
    * synthetic mathematical &  human made ornamental
    * MODERNIST INVASION!!!
  * landscaped garden vs. wildflowers.
    * the desire for not knowing where its going to lead.
  * players designing potential plants? -michael's against it an thinks it should happen through hybrids.
    * find a middle gorund between TEF and SecondLife. where people can contribute into the system, yet retains aesthetic cohesion.

  * plant time/human time

  * a common sturcture on MMoG
    * resource managment
    * need of fertilization through bees and butterflies (eggs turn in to larvae which eat the leaves) but you can fly with them
  * caterpillars can eat away things that are useless or are eating too much bandwidth.
  * alowing non-gardeners to view the garden.
  * the issue of work. 

  * augmented gardens.   
    * interface between real and virtual gardens.
    * PLANTS AND HUMANS PLAY THE GAME TOGETHER!
    * allow sensor kit so people can let their plants play along too!
    * (there is some plant hooked up to twitter which notifies the stream when it needs water.)
    * what other organisms can plants play (are the plants NPCs?)

the definition of GUILD - nitrogen! - work together to find a perfect dynamic balance. 
  * "ecotopes"
  * encouraging diversity.
  * as you reproduce you can move between all your decendents. shifting your point of view.

  * are the gardeners the designers?
  * accept the fate of nature!
  * plants which start real but become more and more mythological
  * "the history of plants"

CHEMICALS
  * the place of pheremones + hormones.
  * a system where in time you get certain colors of flowers.
  * time based resource availability. reflecting the seasons in gameplay through periodic availability.  it s own time. artificial seasons. the important bit is that its recognizable. recognizibly spring, save up for spring.

TREES, muliple players necessary to play a tree character.
  * working together to make a nice symmetrical tree. massive trees created through many people playing together! 

EPIPHYTES -plants that grow on trees (misteltoe :))
  * donation of computational resources.

WEATHER PATTERNS
  * global differences
  * tropics at the edges, for example.

learn the way that mushrooms spread. "the fruiting body", "a big juicy pear falling on the ground"

Belgian Brotherhood of Gardeners <- find out about this.
field trip! to Flora.... she makes a garden of edible wild plants.

  * 3 chemicals -> plant biology page á libyrinth photosynthesis.
  * need to learn more about how plants work. how hybrids are made.
  * check category gardens on the lyberinth. plant morphology. invite a botanist. David Attenborough "the private life of plants"
  * european gardens, indian gardens.
  * ethno botany
  * pata-botany
  * plant based ornament research --> louvre?

emphasis on the vegetable mind.

 possible interfaces
  * maybe yu can plant with your cell phone or must send and email to the plant every day.
  * tamogotchi. what is this sentience that reports the weather? an oracle. the vegetable mind of the whole place.
  * what kind of tree was that in indiana that turns its leaves upside down when its about to rain?

THE ARG
  * can people go visit a plant that is playing as part of the game?
  * a story which connects the online game and other events -a LARP :D (larp vs. arg -> these are antagonistic to each other. why?) part of the ARG situated within the garden.

ECONOMY  
  * Encourage voluntary payment.
  * find people to sponsor the garden.
  * sell sensor kits and seeds
  * all software open source but maybe you can subscribe to a service. phone the garden to hear the weather.
  * a picture or moo cards of the plant that you made. flipbooks!!

  * the sustainability of the garden we are making. open source and easy migration of servers.

"intergarden communication protocol" - IGCP (^_^)
  * servers as roots??
  * each client can be a incubator.
  * seeds blow into your cellphone. your local computer can catch seeds that grow in offline mode.
  * viral spreading---but not viral 

AS A PLANT HOW DO YOU EXPERIENCE BEING IN THIS WORLD?
  * the 3d representation.
  * various ways of viewing the data.
  * you MUST be in the vegetal mind in order to play, ALWAYS
  * stylized representation of plant visualization.

visual display of hormone levels  - things are clearer depending on which way the wind blows.

LETTING GO OF THE 'I'

playing a plant you only see a small part of the garden. through growing and reproducing you see more of the garden space.

maja is excited for the growing gothic ornaments.

WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT?
  * plants behave differently at night.
  * consciousness is only in the roots irridescene
  * dawn and dusk societies can emerge --> watch "Microcosmos"

-deadline of sorts --december 2009.

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