To enable people to use StarLogo TNG to set up a simulation of Flunstellas in a Social Space

Educational Resource

This entry level guide shows you how to select different Flunstellas Models and chose where they are positioned in space, and what size they are.

At the Flunstellas Organisation, we are developing an educational framework in which people can use, and create, various engagement tools, with which to explore the Flunstellas Phenomenon.

StarLogo TNG is a user friendly program that enables entry level users to create & explore, Interactive Models, Simulations and Games, and as such is idealwith which to construct our understanding of Flunstellas.

 

To do this activity you will need...

• To have installed StarLogo TNG
• Added the 'Flunstellas' model library, see below.
  
• And Downloaded & unzipped 'SetUpRoom.sltng.zip'
  
• If you prefer printed instructions, .pdf & .doc files of this guide are attached at the bottom of the page.

Adding the New Models to StarLogo TNG

• Download the 'flunmodels.zip' file from

Opening

• Go to file/open & browse to 'set up room.sltng'
• If you try to open .sltng files that use custom model libraries such as 'flunmodels', by double clicking on the .sltng file on your computer, or through the most recent projects option within StarLogo TNG, it may not open the file correctly.

Adding a Flunstella Model

Breeds

• There will be Four 'Wall' Breeds which have already been created for this project.
• Click 'New' and navigate to the 'Flunstellas' tab, below the top layer of thumbnails.
• Choose one of the 'Flunstellas' models with a grey background and large 'B' in the Thumbnail.
• Give your Flunstellas Breed a name by typing under its thumbnail.
• Click 'Ok'

Creating a new Set Up

1. Click and drag your along the dark grey background we call this the 'Scripting Canvas', until you get to the 'SetUp' page.
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3. You should see the set up block already made to set up the room called “Set Up Wall”
4. Open “Set Up & Run” and drag out a “SetUp” block and place it on the “Set Up” page, on the “Scripting Canvas”
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6. You can rename the “Set Up” block by clicking on the word Set up & Editing it.
   
7. Drag out a “Clear Everyone” block from the “Set Up & Run”
8. Drawer, and place it in the “Set Up” Block.

The Create Do Block

• Click on the Blue Arrow to the right of 'Factory', this will take you to 'My Blocks'.

• Each Breed has it's own blue 'Drawer' of blocks.

 

• Click on the blue tab with your new breeds name on it.

• Drag a “Create Do” block out onto the “Set Up” page, and place it in your new “Set Up” block, underneath Clear Everyone.

Viewing the SetUp in the SpaceLand Window

• Click on the 'SetUp' block at the bottom left of the window.

• If you zoom in, you will be able to see your Flunstellas Model in the room, if you click on it, it's monitor will pop up.

• You can view and change different attributes of your Flunstella such as Xcoordinate, Size and Altitude.

If you want to place your individual Flunstellas in a specific location then..

 

• Go to the 'Factory' and open the 'Traits' drawer.
• Drag out 'Set XY', 'Set Size'and Set Altitude' blocks and place them into the 'Do' socket of the 'Create Do' Block.
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• Click on the Flunstella model & its 'Monitor' window will pop -up.
• You can move the Flunstella to where you want it to be, by adjusting the 'Xcor', 'Ycor' & 'Altitude' by clicking on the up or down arrows to the right of the individual numbers.

•  You can now copy these numbers, and paste them into the set-up block.

If you want to scatter your Flunstella Model(s) randomly...

• In the “Set Up” page on the “Scripting Canvas”.
• Adjust the number of your breed you want to create, by adjust the 'Num'
• Go to 'Factory' and from the 'Traits' drawer drag out a 'Set Size' block, and a 'Set Altitude' block, place them into the 'Do' socket of your new breeds 'Create Do' block.
• Go to 'Factory' and 'Maths' and drag a 'Random' block to replace the 'Set Altitudes' number block.
• Go to your new breeds drawer in 'My Blocks', and drag a 'Scatter mybreed' block underneath its 'Create Do' Block.

 

To enable people to use StarLogo TNG to manipulate camera views of 3D space

Educational Resource

 

This guide shows you how to manipulate the various camera views, in the 3D window StarLogo TNG.

At the Flunstellas Organisation, we are developing an educational framework in which people can use, and create, various engagement tools, with which to explore the Flunstellas Phenomenon. 

StarLogo TNG is a user friendly program that enables entry level users to create & explore, Interactive Models, Simulations and Games, and as such is ideal with which to construct our understanding of Flunstellas.

Moving the Camera around 3D Space.

 

 

To do this activity you will need...

• To have installed StarLogo TNG
• Added the 'Flunstellas' model library, see below.
  
• And Downloaded & unzipped 'SetUpRoom.sltng.zip'
  
• If you prefer printed instructions, .pdf & .doc files of this guide are attached at the bottom of the page.

•  Download the 'flunmodels.zip' file from

• Copy both folders and all their contents into the StarLogo TNG Models directory, see below.
• Applications/StarLogo TNG/Models/

Opening

•  Go to file/open & browse to find the file 'Set Up Room.sltng' 

•  If it isn't already open, in the top set of menus, go to “Windows/SpaceLand

Moving around a Room in SpaceLand

There are two basic views of Spaceland – aerial and overhead.

 Aerial is the 3-D view and Overhead is the 2-D view.

Looking Around SpaceLand

There are two ways to switch to “agent eye” and “agent view".

Method One:

and is based on the 'SpaceLand Navigation Guide'

 worksheet developed by S.T.E.P.

 

These 3D models can be used to create Flunstellas simulations in StarLogo TNG.

Media Art

This is a set of textured 3D models, in the .OBJ file format, to be used as a library of Flunstellas models when creating interactive simulations and games using StarLogo TNG.

To download the Flunstellas 3D model Library click the thumbnail below.

Instructions

    1.    Check that you have already installed StarLogo TNG, which is available for free from http://education.mit.edu/drupal/starlogo-tng
    2.    If StarLogo TNG is open, then close it.
    3.    Unzip flunmodels.zip
    4.    Copy both folders "interiors' & "Flunstellas" & all their contents into Applications/StarLogo TNG/models


    5.    When you next open StarLogo TNG, you should find a new set of models labelled  "Flunstellas" and "interiors".




These models were made by the Flunstellas Organisation.
You have permission to use, alter and share, but please attribute
www.flunstellas.org

Using a Game format to introduce the idea of our minds being mostly private, constellations of ideas.

Game

This 'game' has been developed to engage people in ideas around communication, private thoughts, and closed cognitive systems. We took the neurological/epistemological idea that "only the blind system can know", as our starting point, wanting to create a game which would push participants to communicate in terms of their largely hidden & private, associative systems.

 

Each participant builds a map of these unknowns & unseens, as the game progresses. The aim of the game is to be the first to guess the other participants starting subject. The game is simple to make & learn, all you need is a transparent surface, some paper, pens and blu-tac, although for our version we used magnets instead of blu-tac.

 

With some adaption it has has the potential to be used in many differnt ways, e.g. as a Parapsychological experiement. The rules of the game are explained in the video above.

The rules of the game are described in the above video.

 

 

The game needs

• A printed set of instructions.
• To be developed to work on a larger format, over more time.
• To be developed on a smaller tabletop format
• To document more people playing it
• More suggestions for variations in the rules

The Scientific Wing