here's a little something which Andrew, Andrew and I were discussing over
dinner this week.
Rather than starting from a blank slate, you could begin with as much code
as you're ever going to write. Then your task is to gradually delete
instructions (like a game of jenga?). Perhaps you'd deconstruct, perhaps
you'd destroy and subvert. But you might end the set by deleting the last
consequential command and thus bring visualisation, audio or vibrotactile
olfactoriness to an end.
This can of course dovetail with blank slate coding, indeed, the two can go
in waves. Perhaps a timer controls the process and participants first build
up, then down, swapping the hot seat.
A breakpoint envelope/control function might determine swap times and
changes being creation and destruction. A up B down, B up, A down might
form one variant. And so forth...
Plus, all the participants would wear waistcoats and stroke their chins as
their opponent moved matters to tricky positions.
Received on Sun Sep 02 2007 - 17:18:49 BST