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Reconstruction

Posted on March 13th by Shae Davidson.
Before starting a PhD program I worked for a couple of years as a museum director at a site dedicated to river life, agriculture, and the socio-political world of the ...
Evolved Images

A Kandid Look at Evoluntionary Art

Posted on July 13th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Kandid is a program for understanding the evolution of graphics. Instead of relying on hand drawn graphics, Kandid grows graphics over time by using genetic algorithms. It simulates the ...

Alternative Licensing for Recycled Canvas

Posted on May 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Some people have had problems with the recycle-data plugin. The short story is it is likely caused by some namespace like conflicts somewhere in the code. We've corrected some of ...
Diagrams

Chi Review: Qualities of Perceived Aesthetic in Data Visualization

Posted on May 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Great (and content packed) talk by Nick Cawthon, University of Sydney, Australia. Fair warning, Alt.Chi presentations aren't considered archival by the Chi community (although maybe they should be). Abstract:Through results gathered ...

Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now

Posted on May 7th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Sorry for the delay but there is a lot of stuff going on here. In addition to the squeaky visual improvements and all of the basic features like: Clean simple theme ...
Shaken

Casual Evaluation - Shaked not stirred

Posted on May 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I'm a big fan of thinking about casual evaluation. As I think Piaget would agree, humans are natural experimentation engines. We actively continue to investigate the external world to better ...