Here's a book guaranteed to inspire your creativity and get you looking at the Internet and the World Wide Web with new eyes. Modeling its vision on evolutionary biology, Magical A-Life Avatars uses the example environment of Macromedia Director to create:

• imaginative Intranets
• original Internet services and applications
• new approaches to e-commerce and distance learning
• smart agents and Internet robots
• brain-like processing modules for adaptation and learning
• novel forms of information processing

Magical A-Life Avatars shows, with practical examples, how to bring intelligence to your Website and create Internet interfaces that will increase your competitive advantage. If you're interested in cutting-edge website design and application, this book is for you.

• A-Life avatars as a form of artificial life
• Avatars to create complex systems
• Avatars that make decisions, learn and adapt
• Merging biological and silicon worlds
• Futuristic uses of the Internet