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There are three key ideas to communicate to students starting to work with actor-lab: | |||||||||
the role of the programmer as playwright in actor-lab, developing scripts for a cast of actors. |
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the input => process => output model of control technology, i.e that the basic cycle of actor-lab involves real world events being transformed by the, |
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INPUTS and sent on as messages (or as a flow of data) to, | ACTORS which in turn create a flow of messages to each other and on to, | OUTPUTS that bring about real world events. | |||||||
and that messages can ether be sent immediately or after some delay | |||||||||