{"id":1224,"date":"2007-03-20T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2007-03-30T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T16:58:42","slug":"a-little-virtual-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"A Little (Virtual) FUNK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to call out some intriguing work I&#8217;ve very recently been following on the Funkencode website where an effort is underway to&#8230; well&#8230; I&#8217;ll just post a piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funkencode.com\/spec\/about\/goals-motivations\/\">from the site (Link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FUNK is designed to meet the needs of both humans and machine programs with a greater emphasis on the former. &#8230; Ultimately the purpose of FUNK is to serve as a sort of distributed very high level virtual machine for the meshverse which enables deep interoperability while fulfilling the ideas of Rhythmeering and GriotVision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCurious stuff. I&#8217;m not all that familiar with what&#8217;s going on, but for starters, there&#8217;s work being done on something called Remote Actions Packets (RAP).<\/p>\n<p>I first came across the RAP project in an <a href=\"http:\/\/jlombardi.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/metaverse-interoperability.html\">entry on Julian Lombardi&#8217;s blog (Link)<\/a>. And tonight I caught a <a href=\"http:\/\/croquet.funkencode.com\/2007\/03\/20\/a-new-rap-demo\/\">post on Funkencode sister site, Croquet 2 Play (Link)<\/a>, which announced an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funkencode.com\/spec\/2007\/03\/20\/new-rap-demo-available\/\">update to progress on RAP (Link &#8211; and watch the video as well)<\/a>; an update that involves the Second Life LSL script implementation, among some others worth noting.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I&#8217;ve not been spending much time on the official forums, but there has also been some <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.secondlife.com\/showthread.php?p=1429232#post1429232\">discussion regarding FUNK and its LSL implementation (Link)<\/a>. Until I get a better handle on everything, I&#8217;ll leave this post at that and let you people explore this for yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to call out some intriguing work I&#8217;ve very recently been following on the Funkencode website where an effort is underway to&#8230; well&#8230; I&#8217;ll just post a piece from the site (Link): FUNK is designed to meet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}