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I don’t have a source — lazy Saturday here — but I recall something about city planners using Sim City back in the day as part of their education, which horrifi
by gdubs 9y ago
I don’t have a source — lazy Saturday here — but I recall something about city planners using Sim City back in the day as part of their education, which horrified Will Wright since in his words (paraphrasing) “sim city is just cellular automata with some differential equations sprinkled on top.”
- RandomInteger4 9y agoDear god ... that game makes so much more sense now when seen in that light. I can't believe I haven't made the connection before considering much I enjoy cellular automata.
- ebcode 9y agoYeah, but who's to say that real cities aren't just cellular automata? They kind of look that way from space.
- gowld 9y agoEven if they are, they don't have the same rules as SimCity's
- CalRobert 9y agoIndeed, though in some cases it reveals that the problem is likely how we design actual cities. http://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-parking.html http://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-par...