There are plenty of examples of individual creatures acquiring retinues.
Some of these are produced by individual creatures or groups of such creatures.
On the contrary, these individual creatures have their alien element, and we are unable to inhabit their existence.
I had thought of them as individual creatures, not data sets, but for the purposes of research these salamanders that spent their lives in neighboring plastic bins were indistinguishable from one another.
Naomi Kuyck-Cohen, a first-year student of theatre design, has beautifully added to Ark-ive, snipping filigree herds and individual creatures from card indexes and populating a map of the British Isles with tiny scissored-out beasts.
"The sheer volume, scale and rate of killing," Pachirat told me, "the way the animals form a continuous stream rather than individual creatures, makes it clear the animals are seen as raw material.
There is a gripping English wildlife spectacle, coming to an end just about now, which involves thousands of individual creatures in scenes of mass birth, mass sex and violent death; the only difference is one of scale.
The bots, named after the individual creatures that make up colonial organisms, were presented earlier this week at the Association for Computing Machinery's UIST conference.
