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Earlier this week, Sims creator Will Wright and music pioneer Brian Eno held an open seminar in San Francisco's Herbst Theater. Wright let quotable aphorisms fly:
"Science is all about compressing reality to minimal rule sets, but generative creation goes the opposite direction. You look for a combination of the fewest rules that can generate a whole complex world which will always surprise you, yet within a framework that stays recognizable.....It's not engineering and design, so much as it is gardening. You plant seeds."
Picking up where Wright left off, Eno went on to talk about ambient music, saying it was "more like watching a river." The audience was lulled into a deep slumber.
Wright often listens to Eno's music while working, and the musician provide accompaniment for Wright's demo. During which, Wright said, "Oops. I seem to have inadvertently started an interplanetary war here."
"Like America," Eno interjected. Zing!
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