For my Final Major Project I will endeavour to utilise the concepts of Virtual Life, Artificial Intelligence and Generative Art to create an immersive visualisation that showcases the various technologies and theories involved. The final piece will aim to be of a similar style to the audio responsive video visualizers that are commonplace in most modern media players, with the added technologies that Virtual Life will bring, such as 'flocking' and user interaction. I wish to utilise the power of the computing platform to create an art piece that combines science, technology, programming and design to create an immersive and beautiful visualisation.

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...well, kind of.

I'm planning on learning actionscript for real and working up a few experiments that relate to the goals I want to achieve with this project. Below is a preliminary list of topics that I'm gonna study over the coming weeks:

Programming Basics OOP Functions Objects Classes Packages	Graphics Generating Random Graphics Colour Shape Lines	Movement Autonomous Movement Flocking Quickest route
Agents (AI) Status Senses Reactions Interactions Behaviours	Misc Sound Analysis Webcam Tracking Game of Life

This is a pretty brief list covering a lot of subjects, but i'm pretty sure that as do them I'll discover a whole load more.