FUC 2016

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#FUC2016 is the competitive event finalizing the year's efforts of participating teams.

* We are seeking promoters and organizers, collectively called 'the BAUniC RETwarmy'. Current gathering place is @Virtua1Universe in twitter, facebook.com/groups/baunicretwarmy and baunicretwarmy.blogspot.com

* Great resource to use: lmfdb.org
* Great jump forward in some theories regarding fractal universes: helical-structures.org

Final date to present projects will be November 13, and voting will end on November 25, 2016, allowing adequate time for judges to test them and reach their conclusions.

Projects presented need to be consistent instructions on how to reproduce the results, including instruction set (x86, ARM...), Operating System (Windows, Linux...), program (and where to get the program), and steps to get from the seeding code to the rendered results.

Competition categories (so far):
Best Formula

Challengers:
GoTeamAlbania (goteamalbania-baunic.blogspot.al)
TheAlien5cientists (alienscientist.com)
S0S_Universe_Team (no project presented yet)
196883 (no project presented yet, seeking new members that already know 196883, at 196883mg@gmail.com)
PES_Golly (pesgolly.blogspot.com)

Nominated Challengers:
NerdfighteriaLegion
TheNumberphileAlliance
EganDisciples
MadMaxPartisans
PETU (People for the Ethical Treatment of Universes)
OpenSourceUniverse
LMFDB

Bitcoin donations are gathered here:
184FreFajZwXksbezbKaU4XHxonVAyaYs2
Treasurer, Nathan Fisher of the channel Nate's Turn (https://www.youtube.com/user/NatesTurn/videos)

During 2016, 1 Bitcoin of donations will be rewarded with 1024 votes rounded down to the lowest integer vote.

Current Coin Pot: 0 (zero)
(what we need is intellectual contribution, the coins are here just to tease and gather eternal support through the mechanism of vote deflation)

Voting:
Votes (for each category) will be given by voters to the projects they see fit in any order or arrangement. (For example, if I have 10 votes, I may wish to give all of them to only 1 project on the 'Best Formula' category, and give 3-3-2-1-1 votes on the 'Best Tutorial' category, and pass on the decision to my mate in the 'Best Scenery' category.)
Projects will be ordered by number of votes in their respective category.

Voters:
none(yet)

Participating teams will be rewarded with symbolic votes, 7 votes for their main project in the chosen category, +5 votes for a tutorial to building a similar project (not just steps to reproducing the results), and +3, +2, +1 votes for participating in other categories.
Finalists will also have a symbolic vote gift, +13 votes for making it to the finals of their chosen category, +11 votes for the tutorial finals, and respectively +6, +4 and +2 if they make it to more categories.
Winners will also have a symbolic vote gift, +19 votes for winning their chosen category, +17 if they win the tutorial race, and +9, +6, +3 if they win more categories.
These votes will be dispensed after the competition event and be valid from that moment on, not before.

Founders:
Virtual Universe: zero votes (I'd rather help in other ways, virtualuniverse.the at gmail)
Shqep Palla: zero votes (can't deflate that, shqepalla at gmail)
Nathan Fisher: zero votes (the Treasurer, youtube.com/NatesTurn)
Rubin Gurabardhi: zero votes (will do a website redesign if there comes a need for it, facebook.com/maidiremsn)

Since this is a human-to-human collaboration project, votes are less important than actually brainstorming and bringing forth something worthy, rewarding in more ways than just dropping a preference on a project.



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Changelog:

20160420 - Encouraging participation by giving away symbolic votes.

20160507 - BAUniC RETwarmy

FUC TL;DR

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'Fractal Universe Competition/Collaboration/Challenge' is our attempt to give the world a little push in the direction of sharing expertise, enthusiasm and inspiration, and interacting towards improving the tools and preparation which will help in our exploration of the mathematical universe, whether maths is the substrate of physics or not.

Challenge:
We seek to find self-consistent fractal formulas representing complex structures with enough stability and diversity to allow substructures to compete for finite 'resources' like energy, and evolve, and eventually build civilizations. We do not seek a Theory of Everything directly, though anthropocentric universes would be cool and awesome.

Collaboration:
We think there is enough knowledge and computing power in the world today to allow persistent individuals to have a shot at finding life inside fractals, but the information is hard to find and swallow forming a gap that discourages fans and non-technical artists. We aim to bridge this gap with step-by-step tutorials and overall human interaction fueling the production of various tools and methods to easily go from idea to rendering.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

Competition:
Where individuals and groups can present their formulas and path to visualizing them in a computer.
Where contributors and testers will check the presented works, replicate, evaluate, discuss, and eventually vote on them.

Contributors:
Mathematicians, Physicists, Programmers, Artists, Treasurers, Marketers, Testers, Organizers, Voters, and various well-wishing and people.
Voting Contributors are the ones who are rewarded with the ability to vote on projects by 1coin=1vote rule (actually 1 bitcoin = 1024 votes for the first year, with a deflation proportional to the delivered prizes compared to total donations. The idea is that once you are a contributor, you will be a contributor for life, with exactly the same votes as before, inspiring you to be an ally in more ways than just a voter. New donations will buy more votes for the same coin, fair since you already voted. More information and illustration by example can be found at fractaluniversechallenge.blogspot.com/2016/04/fuc.html)

facebook.com/bauniccc
linkedin.com/in/baunic
twitter: @Virtua1Universe
virtualuniverse.the at gmail

What, Why, How

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What is the Fractal Universe Challenge (FUC)

A competition/collaboration/challenge to build/address a self-consistent fractal structure starting from simple rules and evolving to complexities of civilizations and more. Game-of-Life types of universes are fine, though anthropocentric ones are much more fun.


Why

Awesomely fun, deeply philosophical, and practical purposes that go beyond the visual or the formulas.
A worthy goal within reach of individuals and communities. Affecting our whole civilization.


How

A competition between projects meant to bring forth collaboration between the humans creating/finding those projects.

Donation based prize money pot. Donators will be rewarded with the ability to vote on the projects, proportional to the amount given. Vote price will deflate after prizes are delivered but distributed votes will always be there despite new ones. That means contributor once, voter for life.


Rules:

There will be a maximum of 5 competitions a year, requiring at least 50 bitcoins each, 25 of which will be delivered to worthy projects and the remaining will be up for next year's challenges.

Once a suitable pot has been gathered, voting members, challengers and various collaborators discuss and agree on deadlines to present, test, and judge competing projects.
Challengers can compete with one project per category.
Projects must be consistent, open and replicable.
Formula projects must include instructions about intermediary steps.
Tutorial projects are generic instructions instead of formula-specific ones. Tutorials here are what will change the world and bring the mathematical universe to the mases, bridging creativity and tools to bring those ideas to life.

Mandatory categories are:
1) Best Formula (the big 0scar of FUC)
2) Best Tutorial (easiest and most comprehensive paths from idea to rendering)

Other suggested categories (as agreed among voters, challengers and contributors) are:
3) Best Scenery
3) Most useful formula to aid current physics understanding
3) Best Chances for Life
3) Best Chances for Civilizations
3) Closest match to Our Cosmos (atoms, stars, galaxies, dark energy...)
3) The Fractal Supercomputer
4) Finding our home in the emc2 multiverse
4) 2-way communication (Meeting the lifeforms inside the fractals)
4) Supernatural initial cause within the formula (G0D)

Currently donations are gathered here:
184FreFajZwXksbezbKaU4XHxonVAyaYs2
We have a new Treasurer, Nathan Fisher of the channel Nate's Turn (ex Nate's Vlogs, unfairly taken down due to youtube copyright management) agreeing to collaborate with BAUniC in exchange for the free promotion he will get, (with his effort directly related to the popularity of the project, therefore fair), but also supporting the idea and the possible revolutions it may cause.
To check him out (worth your time for the related topics) you can go to his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NatesTurn/videos

As of 2016, 1 bitcoins buys 1024 votes.
After a competition, 1 bitcoin will buy more votes, proportional to 'money pot before prizes' divided by 'money pot after prizes', with a worst case scenario of half the price.

For more information about how coins and votes will be handled illustrated with examples, check here: http://baunic.blogspot.com/2016/02/building-universe-competition.html

Liquid democracy rules will be used to handle the votes of those who wish to see the project going on but don't trust their expertise and time to indulge in proper testing and give correct verdicts. More information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4lkCECSBFw

FUC

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Fractal Universe Challenge!
We are seeking the formula for a fractal addressable self-consistent structure complex enough to allow self-replicating sub structures within, with enough variation to instigate something akin to evolution.
The idea is simple enough to be within reach, and powerful enough to have potential for great changes, especially if the formulas found reach towards our own emc2 universe.

We need help in this enterprise. Believing it is a goal worth the attention of individuals, communities and even our whole civilization, we are organizing BAUniC, Building a Universe Competition.
Anyone who is interested in improving skills needed for intermediary steps, from formula to rendering it in a computer, is welcomed to contribute and learn.

Some can help with the formulas, some with the programming, some with testing/reproducing, some with teaching, some with promoting, and some with the coin pot to inspire challengers.

Fundraising bitcoin address: 184FreFajZwXksbezbKaU4XHxonVAyaYs2

All monetary donations will go to the pot to be distributed among winning challengers.
All other forms of contributions will be unpaid volountary human-to-human interaction mediated by the internet. (your team can get sponsors and hold their logos like race drivers. :) That is still human-to-human interaction.)

Monetary donations will be rewarded with votes to judge competing projects. A worst case maximum of half the pot will be distributed to worthy projects. The remaining money, and their voting value, will still be there.
Which means: Voting contributor once, contributor for life!

To achieve this easily (without discarding any existing votes), new votes will be sold at inflated price next year, following this formula:

Year(n)VotePrice = Year(n-1)VotePrice * Year(n-1)TotalPotBeforeCompetition / Year(n-1)FinalPot

Year(n)FinalPot = Year(n-1)FinalPot + Donations - DeliveredPrizes

This is better illustrated with an example:

2016's votes will be sold at
1 bitcoin = 1024 votes
65 coins gathered, 1 competition, 15 coins (2 of 6 prizes) delivered, 50 coins remaining.
66560 votes total.

2017's votes will be sold at:
1 bitcoin = 2016VoteCoinRate * 2016Pot / (2016Pot - prizes) = 1024 * 65/50 = 1331 votes (rounded down)
50 coins from 2016, + 10 coins from 2017 donations; 1 competition; - 25 coins (full prizes) delivered = 35 coins remaining.
66560 old votes + 13310 new votes = 79870 votes

2018:
1 bitcoin = 2017VoteCoinRate * 2017Pot / (2017Pot - prizes) = 1024 * 65/50 * 60/35 = 2282 votes
35 coins from 2017, + 65 coins of 2018 donations; 2 competitions; - 40 coins of delivered prizes = 60 coins ready for 2019
79870 old votes + 65 * 2282 new votes = 79870 + 148330 = 228200 votes total

2019:
1 bitcoin = 2018VoteCoinRate * 2018Pot / (2018Pot - prizes) = 1024 * 65/50 * 60/35 * 100 / 60 = 3803 votes

And so on.
If you bought 10 votes, you will keep those 10 votes forever.

Aiming for a first competition target of 50 bitcoins, with prizes distributed in:
1st prize: 10 bitcoins
2nd prize: 5 bitcoins
3rd prize: 4 bitcoins
4th prize: 3 bitcoins
5th prize: 2 bitcoins
6th prize: 1 bitcoin
Next year's ready pot: 25 bitcoins

There will be a maximum of 5 competition categories per year. 2 of them fixed:
*Best Formula (the big Oscar of the BAUniC)
*Best Tutorial (since the main goal of BAUniC is to bring the fractal universe to the world)

Other Categories as decided by voting members:
*Best Scenery
*Most useful formula to aid current physics
*Best Chances for Life
*Best Chances for Civilizations
*Closest match to Our Cosmos
*Finding our home in the emc2 multiverse
*The Fractal Supercomputer
*2 way communication (Meeting the lifeforms inside the fractals)
*Supernatural initial cause within the formula (G0D)
*...
*...