The life of an animator - chapter 1

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I sat hunched over the console, staring at the twisting spiral diagram projected in flickering blue light infront of me. I pressed a few buttons on the console, the diagram changed subtley. I pressed another button, there was a breif pause as the system assembled the virus from bio-gell (a blend of base protiens and other basic building blocks for life). The holographic display switched from the DNA diagram to a full 3D representation of the events in the test enviroment.3

I watched in frustration as the simulated immune system destroyed my virus for the 100th time. I sighed and sterilzed the test enviroment, and returned to scrutinising the DNA of my virus. Abrubtly a klaxon sounded. "Okay, that's the end of the lesson, homework is to see if you can design a virus to defeat this simulation.
I transfered the data onto a Holographic Storage Chip, powered off my console and filed out of the class.4

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I sat back in the chair, frustrated. No matter what i tried i couldnt find a way to defeat the simulation. It was late at night, my roomate was already assleep. Suddenly a new arangement for the DNA poped into my head. I made the modifications and iniated the test. As the loading bar slowly moved across the screen, my eyes blurred and I laid my head down on the desk.
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I blinked my eyes open, Light was streaming in through the small plastic window above the console, two words were displayed on the screen in block capitals "Test Sucessfull"...