[Edu-sig] Refocusing on Capabilities (was PySqueak)

[Dethe Elza]

On 5/22/06, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> Also, if you have any pointers to
> free-as-in-freedom Bucky-related content I could throw in such a stack,
> that would be nice too. I'm mainly just looking for something that makes a
> nice demo with a dozen cards worth of interesting educational content and
> graphics. I could go with gardening (I've lots of stuff on that) but I
> thought Bucky stuff might be more fun right now.

Hi Paul,

I have a feeling you're about to get more than you bargained for.
Kirby is a kind of Ground Zero for Bucky resources on the web--I knew
of him from my readings on Synergetics long before meeting up with him
in edu-sig. There is plenty of Bucky on the web to choose from,
although much (most) of it is copyrighted.  The magnum opus,
Synergetics, is available here:

http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/toc/toc.html

While it is copyrighted, many of the ideas in it lend themselves to
software expressions. When I was reading it (on traditional pulped
trees) I felt like there should be an accompanying set of small
programs demonstrating the ideas.  Bucky expends a lot of text trying
to describe 3D animations in prose.

--Dethe