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Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome. Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively simple. Have ...
Multiperformance
Ted Warburton's Lubricious Transfer project used the Internet2 to connect dancers in New York City and Santa Cruz, California, during a simultaneous, collaborative performance. Inspired by the parallels between communications technology and ...
Journey to the West
Shaun Huston, professor of Geography and Film Studies at Western Oregon University, created Visualizing the West to provide a forum for artists and scholars interested in ...
Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It does fail ...
A Kandid Look at Evoluntionary Art
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 process of ...
Northern Sounds
Minimalist composer John Luther Adams first visited Alaska in the mid-1970s, returning over the next few summers to serve as a guide and work for preservation and conservation programs. His connection to the ...
Visualizing Taste in Pixar’s Ratatouille
It's often hard to imagine how we could 'see' abstract concepts, sounds and even taste. People who actually have synesthesia usually taste shapes, so maybe the answer is to represent taste as ...
Where do ideas come from?
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...
Making Money off Mashups
People have been building exciting and creative web mashupss, but most mashup developers haven't yet figured out how to make them profitable. Fortunately, IDELIX Software has developed a new ...
Clusterball: A new view of Wikipedia
Chris Harrison designed an illuminating visualization of three levels within Wikipedia and their interconnections. His design starts with one large circle, the center of which holds the parent topic. Secondary ...
Font Farm - Breeding Typography
genoTyp is an incredibly interesting experiment in genetic typography by Michael Schmitz. I have a strong interest in the idea of genetic algorithms and the elegance with which genoTyp allows the ...
Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...
Notes from the recycling center (week one)
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here as well ...
The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)
If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We'll give you access to our code repository and bug tracking ...
[mashups] Lots of coal, but the engine is full.
Read/WriteWeb points out that mapping continues to be the dominate API used for mashups, and wonders if mashups have lost their luster: There are few surprises in this information. Google Maps is ...