Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05101
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:35:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Something funny with the 1382 voltage triggers?
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
> > > Yes, I see your point. One could even say that Tilden himself
> > > relies on the trial and error method to make these things.
>
> > Afaik Mark T. tries very hard to do better than that.
> Ok, I'll give you that one. But, I think the "emergent behaviors"
> still fall into the trial and error category.
The idea is to make such behaviours happen by design rather than
accident, but I haven't the foggiest how that might be achieved.
And everybody else appears to be just as much in the dark, so far.
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> > It seems to me that fewer would turn away in frustration, and more
> > would learn to really enjoy mechatronics if BEAM would put them not
> > so much in the dark to begin with.
> See, I like to think that they are already in the dark, and BEAM
> casts a tiny shaft of light. Perhaps, as you say, in the wrong
> direction, but a direction non the less.
> I've also noticed that people like Bob and Wilf, who have a
> background in electronics, still find BEAM intriguing.
So do I, also with a background in electronics. I still say there
is (much) room to improve BEAM in the above respect. But all of a
sudden, after all talk of `advanced' BEAM, everything must stay
just as it is. Change! Innovation! The Horror!
Best,
Steve
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