Thursday, October 6, 2016

Side Quest 1: The Tech Museum of Innovation

This is me at The Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose, on my first side quest for extra credits!






You can type whatever text you want into the computer, and the robotic arm will write it for you in blocks.


 

This was very fascinating. The anatomy images on the computer table could be rotated and display separate parts of the human body: organs only, muscles only, skeleton, nervous system, etc. The computer screen can even make incisions, allowing the staff member to cut the entire body in half or in other places and to examine the inside of the body. 

The "patient" on the screen was actually a body donor with leukemia and lung cancer.






This is where guests can create their own digital single-celled organisms, by choosing and assembling chromosomes to program their DNA, and then releasing them onto the screen with other cells.

My cell programming was simple:

When: Always
Doing What: Divide
How Much: A Lot

When: Meet Stranger Cell
Doing What: Attach
How Much: A Lot

When: Meet Stranger Cell
Doing What: Turn Red
How Much: A Lot

When: Meet Stranger Cell
Doing What: Kill
How Much: A Lot


You see those malicious-looking red cells that are gradually dividing and devouring the other cells or turning them into more red cells? I made them.




The Earthquake Simulator!


 

 

 





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