Archive for January 19th, 2006

Shiffman’s Reactive and Swarm

January 19th, 2006

First the precious link And from the papers :
Can an image behave? In other words, if a digital image is a visual representation of colors (i.e. pixels) on a grid (i.e. screen or piece of paper), what if each element of this grid were able to act on its own? A series of experiments in [...]


First week notes

January 19th, 2006

Diastic reading:
Diastic reading is an arbitrary but not random way of selecting words from one text to create a new text.
A key phrase(title phrase) guides the selection of words. Let’s say that the key phrase is “red balloon.” Starting at the beginning of the text, we would select the first word that began with an [...]


Second Semester begins.

January 19th, 2006

The school bells are ringing again, well at least it was when I was in high school :) So I made huge changes in my schedule, big decision was postpone taking Networked Objects and leaning towards taking Shiffman’s second class. The reasons were two-sided. First I don’t feel like to have the physical energy [...]