Production Principles for CellWorld

Not either or but both.

• When struggling back and forth between two alternatives use both.

The human umpire principle.

• When in doubt let a person, not a program decide.

The Egyptian painting principle

• Show reality as vividly as possible so that even in flat drawings we see all 10 fingers and all ten toes and sometimes both eyes from the side.

The dynamic range principle

• fast and slow, big and small, light and heavy, loud and soft, bright and dim, intense and calm, etc.

Show what is known not how it was found.

• Reduce the cognitive load by cutting to the chase, giving the punch line, showing what we know not the whole bloody story of how we figured it out. Save that for the sequel.

Avoid nomenclature.

• Except for rudimentary things avoid endless nomenclature, it doubles the cognitive load and distracts from what is going on. Take away the names, let the things be the things they are doing the things they do in the shapes of the shape they are. Quit adding names to things that are happy to be what they are unnamed. Lamda calculus your way back to the original thing that was and is and always will be!

Character before title

• It is the character of a person not the title that is important.

Prophecies

• "The horse has become the face"
• Ok, we got it working.
• We're out of time.