On 5/10/2016 8:28 PM, Norbert Kern wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>
>> I have lost my entire paper library, and would like to find a copy of Asimov's
>> tale of the goose who laid the golden egg.  It's brilliantly written, and
>> following up on your speculation, you'd find a very interesting read.  :)
>
> I just read a summary of Asimov's tale - very funny!
>
> Personally I think intelligence is a ubiquitary phenomenon and is easy to create
> and implement. Imho Valentin Braitenberg or Dietrich Dörner were on the right
> track. E.g. far senses like vision are needed - how to implement those?
> In nature you had cellular caves with light sensitive cells and an information
> transport. If you are a flexible noble metal, you can tempoarily build
> oxygen-based semiconductor layers and so on.
>

Seems reasonable.


> Anyway - if you interact with an environment, at first you have to transform
> yourself constantly, adapting surface layers (more normals than pigments in
> povray?) and secondly you move by liquifying parts of your structure (even more
> normals!)
> This is, what I want to see in a good material...
>

You are frightening me. :-)
Too much of an insight.


>> Excellent work.
>> I agree with Stephen - if those are "failed" attempts... :O
>
> Here is a better attempt - not necessarily pretty, but imho a bit more
> plausible...
>
>

Well, shiny isn't everything.
It is hard to see your texture. It is obscured by the geometry. Quite 
amazing.



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Regards
     Stephen

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