Transmission 009 : On game protocol

Random Lissajous Webs
By the generative artist Keith Peters

We are exposing here some thoughts on the protocol of use of the interface, basically the rules of the navigation in the “game”.
At first, the user/ expert is presented with a complete image of the problem he will be called to solve. This is the general question and does not concern the specific, sub-categories of questions involved in solving it.
Ex: An expert in mine-seeking would be presented with something like “How to find all the mines in a field with the minimum of casualties”.
This is the objective-goal, the optimum outcome from the game and also the boundaries of the space-form on the interface.

Thus, he has a specific end-exit point (mines exterminated w/ minimum casualties) and a number of possible entry points depending on his proper way of organizing the process of problem solving (general conditions info, specific context info, techniques info, prevention info etc…)

There is already a pre-existing form of organization of data on the interface. This would be something like a false, non-perfect or incomplete proposition on how to proceed.
That way, the expert starts correcting, re-organizing, adding elements, teaching the system somehow how to evolve its original form.
Also, this original form is a way of rephrasing questions as answers (even if wrong) and permitting the expert to enrich the scenario by inputing new questions (ex. Extra geographical, climatic, historical specifications needed to proceed)

As the user re-shapes the form, the system creates new connections based on its internal protocol of organization, dynamically, with laws of gravity, magnetism, forces of attraction and repulsion, deformation etc. (See Transmission 007).

In case multiple experts of the same field will be consecutively proceeding in the game, the initial form is always enriched but the previous person.

Space Time
By the generative artist Keith Peters