++ ○ [en]  internet version

http://motoc.tomoo.net/japanese/CyGnet/en.html

The world is unmistakably round.
The structure of the vast universe and miniscule molecule are
a structure of circles and globes.
Consider what the world is made of.
There are infinite responses. Everything that you can think of makes
us our world. Put any two of these elements together, and you will see
some facet of the world. You could even call it a story.

Plato said that human beings were originally round. Because this made them too powerful, the gods cut them in two, and human beings became what we are today. Ever since then we have longed for our "better half."

Accessing the ◯[en] web page you find a small circular world. Visitors to this site first use the 'Shape' Creator and create an original form, to send them into the ◯[en] world.
This "shape" is then configured with another's "shape" to create a new "wholes," based on the IP addresses of the computers they were sent from. The movements and audio characteristics of the "wholes" are based on the IP address, color and "shape" selected.
This is like a life form born of the the sensibilities of the two participants.
When new "shapes" enter this world, the "whole" may be restructured, and your "shape" may
become attached to a new partner.

When partners are attached by a specific rule, the partners can speak to each other using the ◯[en] Communicator. Each couple here have their own individual communication space.
At first sight this has the functions of a bulletin board, but if both access this communication
space at the same time they can also share realtime "chat" communication. These couples are formed through communication between their "shapes," never knowing the name, age, occupation or sex of their partner. On the other hand, partners are continually being interchanged. The world is always in transformation.

This continuously changing ◯[en] World can be observed any time, but with the "Partner"
Simulator the user can also experiment with grouping couples. All of the "shapes" sent to ◯[en] World become stored in the web page's catalog. They can be grouped at will, and made into "wholes" if they were genetic manipulations. In this way maybe the participants can search the entire world through the Internet, seeking and finding new partners.