The Nature of Code
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 12:27 AM - Beautiful Code
Can we capture the unpredictable evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in software? Can understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world world help us to create digital worlds? This class will focus on the programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems. We’ll explore topics ranging from basic mathematics and physics concepts to more advanced simulations of complex systems. Subjects covered will include forces, trigonometry, fractals, cellular automata, self-organization, and genetic algorithms. Examples will be demonstrated using Processing with a focus on object oriented programming.
Learn the way of the code with Daniel Shiffman. First week already online!
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Friday, January 20, 2006, 09:28 PM - Beautiful Code
Well, this is one of those things that make this city so desperately awsome isn't it. The SPOTS media facade opened today at 17:00 on the frozen Park Kolonnaden building. As you can see in the pics, a few series of curated art projects will be delivered for free to a hopefully delighted walking audience for 18 months. You can also buy little postcards with changing images on them. The installation was designed by Realities:United, a Berlin-based architecture studio, also responsible for the amazing BIX facade at the Kunsthaus (Graz).
This selection was curated by Andreas Broeckmann, the big man at the Transmediale, but will include works by Jim Campbell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Carsten Nicolai and Realities:United in collaboration with John Dekron. Visitors to Transmediale 06 will have a chance to see them all together, one per day, in a special show.
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a terminal everywhere
Friday, January 20, 2006, 09:10 PM - Beautiful Code
Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an "internet desert" - from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? ANYTERM is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access - see the demos .
Anyterm can use almost any web browser and even works through firewalls. There is experimental support for mobile phones using WAP. If you join my.anyterm.org you can access your systems straight away via our server with no software to install anywhere. Alternatively, you can run the Anyterm software on your own system - see the deployment examples.
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Joyce Sequence
Friday, January 20, 2006, 09:02 PM - Beautiful Code
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The sequence of numbers
{j_n} giving the number of digits in the three-fold power tower n^(n^n). The values of n^(n^n). for .n==1, 2,. ... are 1, 16, 7625597484987., ... (Sloane's A002488; Rossier 1948), so the Joyce sequence is 1, 2, 13, 155, 2185, 36306., ... (Sloane's A054382). Laisant (1906) found the term j_9., and Uhler (1947) published the logarithm of this number to 250 decimal places (Wells 1986, p. 208).
The sequence is named in honor of the following excerpt from the "Ithaca" chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses:
"Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9, that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers."
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