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If this IS art it's pretty bad. You should have seen http://www.levitated.net/ (I think they are gone now though)Now THAT was an experiment in random and interactive images. The only thing interesting about this is that the guy used Ming but what he produced looks so bad it's really hard to be impressed.

Step one: go to a computer with a flash player installed.

Step two: check out these. Or for giggles, maybe a couple of these. Or maybe just This.

Step three: tell me again that Flash is pointless.

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Especially after playing Seaman.

http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/seaman.shtml

Some games are high creative art (like Seaman), and most others are low trashy art (like Quake). But they're all art.

Why do the eggheads bother asking such easy questions as "are video games art"? Mega-duh. How about asking more interesting questions like "how can we apply art to other computer applications like spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers and programming languages?"

What happens when art meets a programming language? Check out the most amazing stuff I've ever seen done with Flash 5 -- and it's all open source:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html

Don't miss these elegant XML browsers for mapping web pages and reading poetry:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/pondcoderotdaily.ht ml
http://www.levitated.net/daily/pcFinite.html
http://www.levitated.net/daily/may2.html

And here's the most elegant approach to a visual programming language I've ever seen. Click the right button and select "Zoom" a few times, then pan around with the left button to manipulate the icons close-up:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/isoconstruct.html

-Don

Especially after playing Seaman.

http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/seaman.shtml

Some games are high creative art (like Seaman), and most others are low trashy art (like Quake). But they're all art.

Why do the eggheads bother asking such easy questions as "are video games art"? Mega-duh. How about asking more interesting questions like "how can we apply art to other computer applications like spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers and programming languages?"

What happens when art meets a programming language? Check out the most amazing stuff I've ever seen done with Flash 5 -- and it's all open source:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html

Don't miss these elegant XML browsers for mapping web pages and reading poetry:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/pondcoderotdaily.ht ml
http://www.levitated.net/daily/pcFinite.html
http://www.levitated.net/daily/may2.html

And here's the most elegant approach to a visual programming language I've ever seen. Click the right button and select "Zoom" a few times, then pan around with the left button to manipulate the icons close-up:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/isoconstruct.html

-Don

Especially after playing Seaman.

http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/seaman.shtml

Some games are high creative art (like Seaman), and most others are low trashy art (like Quake). But they're all art.

Why do the eggheads bother asking such easy questions as "are video games art"? Mega-duh. How about asking more interesting questions like "how can we apply art to other computer applications like spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers and programming languages?"

What happens when art meets a programming language? Check out the most amazing stuff I've ever seen done with Flash 5 -- and it's all open source:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html

Don't miss these elegant XML browsers for mapping web pages and reading poetry:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/pondcoderotdaily.ht ml
http://www.levitated.net/daily/pcFinite.html
http://www.levitated.net/daily/may2.html

And here's the most elegant approach to a visual programming language I've ever seen. Click the right button and select "Zoom" a few times, then pan around with the left button to manipulate the icons close-up:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/isoconstruct.html

-Don

Especially after playing Seaman.

http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/seaman.shtml

Some games are high creative art (like Seaman), and most others are low trashy art (like Quake). But they're all art.

Why do the eggheads bother asking such easy questions as "are video games art"? Mega-duh. How about asking more interesting questions like "how can we apply art to other computer applications like spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers and programming languages?"

What happens when art meets a programming language? Check out the most amazing stuff I've ever seen done with Flash 5 -- and it's all open source:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html

Don't miss these elegant XML browsers for mapping web pages and reading poetry:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/pondcoderotdaily.ht ml
http://www.levitated.net/daily/pcFinite.html
http://www.levitated.net/daily/may2.html

And here's the most elegant approach to a visual programming language I've ever seen. Click the right button and select "Zoom" a few times, then pan around with the left button to manipulate the icons close-up:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/isoconstruct.html

-Don

Especially after playing Seaman.

http://www.gamenationtv.com/reviews/seaman.shtml

Some games are high creative art (like Seaman), and most others are low trashy art (like Quake). But they're all art.

Why do the eggheads bother asking such easy questions as "are video games art"? Mega-duh. How about asking more interesting questions like "how can we apply art to other computer applications like spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers and programming languages?"

What happens when art meets a programming language? Check out the most amazing stuff I've ever seen done with Flash 5 -- and it's all open source:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html

Don't miss these elegant XML browsers for mapping web pages and reading poetry:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/pondcoderotdaily.ht ml
http://www.levitated.net/daily/pcFinite.html
http://www.levitated.net/daily/may2.html

And here's the most elegant approach to a visual programming language I've ever seen. Click the right button and select "Zoom" a few times, then pan around with the left button to manipulate the icons close-up:

http://www.levitated.net/daily/isoconstruct.html

-Don