In the May 1989 issue of Scientific American, A.K. Dewdney published a column on a program called “BUGS” that created a simulation of bacterial growth and evolutionary behavioral changes. The BUGS! program (actually called “Simulated Evolution”), was published by Michael Palmiter of “Life Science Associates” from Bayport, New York. I still have the program, although [...]

Jason Stephens and I have been working on our Arduino controlled / DS Touch screen driven Etch-A-Sketh. It’s coming along well. There were a few hiccups with getting the stepper motors to jitter less — Jason handled that using a number of tricks he developed, including “tuning” the motors RPM settings and reducing the number [...]

In response to the CommLab reading today (McLuhan, Letham, Garnett and Meiselas), I’m going to discuss the three images I’ve attached below. These are three very different images that I have always found extremely unsettling, yet each powerful in its own way and each relevant to the readings. The first image is an iconic photo [...]

Real Estate investment can be a bitch.

example //Info: http://processingjs.org/reference // Array of worm objects – dave boyhan – 10/4/10 int wormCount = 20; // the number of worms int ScreenSize = 600; // size of scrreen worm[] wormArray = new worm[wormCount]; // create wormArray of worms void setup() { size(200,200); // create screen smooth(); wormArray = new worm[wormCount]; // initialize arry [...]

Andi Cheung, Ginny Hung, Dave Boyhan