AARON’s painting algorithm (from the screensaver) looks like a modified flood-fill, only with various constraints appropriate to physical paint. Maybe I will imitate this later, but for now I just want to get something colouring on-screen.
Month: February 2005
“My algorithm does that!” I exclaimed. Then caught myself. 🙂
Remix Reading Launch Party
http://wiki.remixreading.org/index.php/LaunchEvent
http://www.remixreading.org/node/300
“Programming gives me the power to work on a higher level of abstraction than painting does, ” he [Cohen] emphasizes. “It’s as if I work on the level of the platonic ideal, while the paintings the program generates are the earthly instantiation of that idea.
That is definitely something that appeals to me about programming art, the fact that you are working with instantiable abstractions. Many artists produce series of works around the same idea, using code to produce work formalises and allows greater control over doing so.
CNUK Restore
I’ve restored my page there.
And I’ve added some comments on the CNUK social contract.
Quick Check
Art Computing
Airport Extreme Card
I’m posting this now using the connection, so it can be made to work. But it’s not the simple user experience I expect from Apple.
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
“It’s so cold in this house… Like drinking poison, like eating glass.”
So ‘Silent Alarm’ by Bloc Party is ideal for me just now. There’s a good measure of dark and acutely observed songs on the album. But there’s beauty as well, as in the current single “So Here We Are”. It’s a good range, musically as well as emotionally. I’ve no idea who Gang Of Four are, so Bloc Party sound like the Cure, The Police, New Order, and other late 1970s/ early 1980s influences that I can’t quite place. Which isn’t to say that this is pastiche, it isn’t, it’s poetic lyrics and driven music that works very well and sounds fresh and young. In some places it sounds a little too young, as if Bloc Party haven’t been to Hamburg yet, but that just means that they have more potential for the future.
Recommended.