Dirt-free gardening

I enjoy a bit of gardening from time to time. It's great to get your hands dirty and be literally 'down-to-earth' for a while. If you like to grow a garden without getting dirty fingers, however, you might consider doing so from behind your pc. Just have a look at Packet Garden.

Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore. To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from the internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a website, an 'HTTP plant' is grown. If you share some files via eMule, a 'Peer to Peer plant' is grown, and so on.

None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it's used to grow a personal landscape, a kind of 'walk-in graph' uniquely shaped by the way you use the internet. With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.

Sounds like a really cool project to me. And it is not just a project; it's an artwork, commissioned by Arnolfini, the Bristol-based centre for contemporary arts. Packet Garden is developed using open source software components and can be freely downloaded. You can read more about it here .

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[Garden Fountains Junkie]

Thanks so much for the great info about Packet Garden. This is the very first time I have ever heard about this neat "virtual garden growing" tool.

I realize that most of the old-time, die-hard gardeners would probably look at such a “garden” as if Satan himself designed it, but as someone who has his own garden decor website and as someone who spends at least 12 hours online everyday, Packet Garden is ideal for me. Thank you once again!

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