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From: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
Subject: Re: Town Simulation
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 17:12:52 GMT
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Just a little more decaying matter for the compost heap of ideas:

I have toyed with the idea of a `SimVillage' program, analogous to
SimCity, but quite different, reflecting the different physical,
social, and technological aspects of a medieval village or town (shall
we build that cathedral?) compared to a modern one.  As I thought
about it, I realized that some of those villages and towns had such
small populations that they might be simulated at the individual level
(including cool graphical walk-throughs of the village, with
individual people passing you on the narrow crooked streets, etc).  

If you develop the idea of an individually simulated community with
genetic algorithms, AI, or whatever, the low-tech village may prove a
more tractable and fruitful milieu than a modern city.

