Monthly Archives: March 2011

Nature of Code – Complex Systems

Hybrid Flocking and Nodes (combining target nodes and flocking) This sketch is a small experiment combining 3D nodes and a flocking system. Sources include Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou’s Ribbon Kit and Daniel Shiffman’s Flocking example. The boid behavior combined from a simple … Continue reading

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Learning Bit by Bit – PageRank

Among the different texts on the topic of PageRank that we looked at, the two seminal papers by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine and The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the … Continue reading

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Nature of Code – Midterm (continued)

Part I (in search of fluid) I have spent the past two weeks investigating different models of fluid simulation. Covering various forms of SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics), Navier-Stokes based approaches, and Lagrangian methods. My motivation for this research was based … Continue reading

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Learning Bit by Bit – Jaron Lanier

You Are Not A Gadget (Chapters 1 – 3) By Jaron Lanier Lanier Begins a section in his book with the statement: “The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.”…In relative terms technology itself could be … Continue reading

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Nature of Code – Midterm Sketch

Midterm Sketch (applied algorithms in material structures and pattern generation) While no code has presently materialized for my midterm sketch, a good deal of inspiration has that will hopefully lead toward interesting directions in the second half of the semester. … Continue reading

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Reading and Writing Electronic Text – Midterm Project

Midterm Project (Sapphic stanza and fragmented text) While considering some of the different methods for generating poetry and text in our readings I was reminded of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho (630 – 570 BC). One of the things that … Continue reading

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Design Frontiers – Midterm Project

Midterm Project (Exploring the Vacuum) a joint project with Johnny Lu Our project focused on a less structured approach to materials exploration. We set out with a very general thesis… build a specialized environment, a vacuum chamber, and see what … Continue reading

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Learning Bit by Bit – Hidden Markov Models

Part of Speech Tagging and HMM’s I thought it might be appropriate to begin this posting on Hidden Markov Models and POS with the above video… I came home last night to find my roommate watching this on YouTube. A … Continue reading

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